Remove a semicolon in a string by JavaScript [duplicate]

Question

How can I remove the semicolon (;) from a string by using JavaScript?

For example:

var str = '<div id="confirmMsg" style="margin-top: -5px;">'

How can I remove the semicolon from str?

Answer 1

You can use the replace method of the string object. Here is what W3Schools says about it: JavaScript replace().

In your case you could do something like the following:

str = str.replace(";", "");

You can also use a regular expression:

str = str.replace(/;/g, "");

This will replace all semicolons globally. If you wish to replace just the first instance you would remove the g from the first parameter.