Mark text in HTML

Question

I have some plain text and html. I need to create a PHP method that will return the same html, but with before any instances of th

Answer 1

You'll need to get deep into the dark woods of Regex for this, but I'm not sure what value doing so would have if you want to apply the same class to every element. If you're hell-bent on every element having a new span, then this page might help: http://haacked.com/archive/2004/10/25/usingregularexpressionstomatchhtml.aspx

Really the more logical thing to do would be to just apply class="marked" to the body element unless you've got a good reason for adding a duplicate class to everything on the page.