Why does Jquery only affect the first div element? [duplicate]

Question

I am using the "replace" function to remove all non-numeric values in a div.

It seems Jquery replace only affects the first element.

Here is my Jquery:

$('#comment').each(function() {
    var thz = $(this);
    var repl = thz.html(thz.html().replace(/\D+/g, ''));
});

HTML Code:

<a id="comment1" href="#"> c2fđf011. </a>
<a id="comment1" href="#"> c20ff113. </a>
<a id="comment1" href="#"> c201gf76341. </a>

Result:

2011 c20ff113. c201gf76341.

The result I want is:

2011 20113 20176341

Answer 1

You have duplicate ids, Which is invalid and also jQuery ID selector(or any other id selector like document.getElementById which internally jQuery uses because element with ids are indexed by most browsers and are meant to be unique) will return only the first one that appears in DOM. Change it to class and see it working:

$('.comment').each(function() { 
     var thz =  $(this); var repl =
     thz.html(thz.html().replace(/\D+/g, '')); 
});

HTML

<a class="comment1" href="#"> c2fđf011. </a> 
<a class="comment1" href="#">c20ff113. </a> 
<a class="comment1" href="#"> c201gf76341. </a>

By the way had your id been like this:-

<a id="comment1" href="#"> c2fđf011. </a> 
<a id="comment2" href="#">c20ff113. </a> 
<a id="comment3" href="#"> c201gf76341. </a>

Starts with Attribute selector will help you (But slow you down literally, since this is an attribute selector and lose the advantage of using IDs).

$('[id^=comment]').each(function() { // While using this better give a container context $('[id^=comment]', 'container').each(function...
    var thz = $(this);
    var repl = thz.html(thz.html().replace(/\D+/g, ''));
});

Demo

Moral: IDs must be unique