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Regular Expression to Replace Special Characters from String using JavaScript

Hello everyone, I am going share the code sample for how to Replace Special Charactersfrom String  like you can see the below image.



In the above output image, you can see, when I clicked on "Remove Special Characters" button to display an alert text-box input text are not showing the special characters in the result string but I putting the some special charters in the in the text-box, you can see, edit and click on below given plunker link.


The JavaScript code with regular expression for Replacing Special Characters from String  as give below

function removeSpecialCharacters() {
    var regExpr = /[^a-zA-Z0-9-. ]/g;
    var userText = document.getElementById('user').value;
    alert(userText.replace(regExpr, ""));
}

The Full Live demo code as given below

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>JavaScript Regular Expression to Replace Special Characters from String</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
    <script data-require="jquery" data-semver="2.1.4" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.4.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function removeSpecialCharacters() {
            var regExpr = /[^a-zA-Z0-9-. ]/g;
            var userText = document.getElementById('user').value;
            alert(userText.replace(regExpr, ""));
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <div>
        <h1>JavaScript Regular Expression to Replace Escape Special Characters from String</h1>
    </div>
    <div>
        <h2>Enter Your Input Text</h2>
    </div>
    <div>
        <input type="text" id="user" value="Hello Anil' Welcome you  to#$% code-@!sample.$*^com" class="text" />
        <input type="button" id="btnRemove" value="Remove Special Characters" onclick="removeSpecialCharacters()" class="success" />
    </div>
</body>
</html>

The CSS code for Textbox and button as given below

<style>
    h1 {
        color: Green;
    }

    .success {
        background-color: #57A957;
        color: white;
        background-repeat: no-repeat;
        display: inline-block;
        height: 40px;
        vertical-align: middle;
    }

    .text {
        height: 36px;
        position: relative;
        border: 1px solid #cdcdcd;
        font-size: 14px;
        width: 300px;
    }
</style>


The output : go to link http://embed.plnkr.co/06dJ3A/preview

Thank you!




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