I have the following text...

<select>
<option>product name (+£4.50)</option>
</select>

I want to be able to use javascript or php to insert tags around (+£4.50) so that it is changed to...

<select>
<option>product name <div>(+£4.50)</div></option>
</select>

Does anyone know of a string function I could use to find ( and then place the tags either side of the brackets.

Thanks

<div> tags are not allowed inside option elements

the <select> element is an inline element and as such cannot contain block element such as <div>s.

yes, of course. I don't know why I said DIV i meant SPAN, or EM. I was just using it as an example. sorry bad example.

NP

best way is just insert them at creation time, but it's not difficult to loop through the option nodes of a select and run a simple replace on the brackets.

textObj.replace("(","<em>(")
textObj.replace(")",")</em>")