Capitalize first letter of each word in JS

Question

I\'m learning how to capitalize the first letter of each word in a string and for this solution I understand everything except the word.substr(1) portion. I see that it\'s a

Answer 1

The major part of the answers explains to you how works the substr(1). I give to you a better aproach to resolve your problem

   function capitalizeFirstLetters(str){
      return str.toLowerCase().replace(/^\w|\s\w/g, function (letter) {
          return letter.toUpperCase();
      })
    }

Explanation: - First convert the entire string to lower case - Second check the first letter of the entire string and check the first letter that have a space character before and replaces it applying .toUpperCase() method.

Check this example:

function capitalizeFirstLetters(str){
      return str.toLowerCase().replace(/^\w|\s\w/g, function (letter) {
          return letter.toUpperCase();
      })
    }

console.log(capitalizeFirstLetters("a lOt of words separated even   much spaces "))

Answer 2

The regexp /\b\w/ matches a word boundary followed by a word character. You can use this with the replace() string method to match then replace such characters (without the g (global) regexp flag only the first matching char is replaced):

> 'hello my name is ...'.replace(/\b\w/, (c) => c.toUpperCase());
'Hello my name is ...'
> 'hello my name is ...'.replace(/\b\w/g, (c) => c.toUpperCase());
'Hello My Name Is ...'

Answer 3

Consider an arrow function with an implicit return:

word => `${word.charAt(0).toUpperCase()}${word.slice(1).toLowerCase()}` 

This will do it in one line.

Answer 4

Using ES6

let captalizeWord = text => text.toLowerCase().split(' ').map( (i, j) => i.charAt(0).toUpperCase()+i.slice(1)).join(' ')

captalizeWord('cool and cool')

Answer 5

function toTitleCase(str)
{
  return str.replace(/\w\S*/g, function(txt){return 
  txt.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + txt.substr(1).toLowerCase();});
}