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designerNProgrammer
designerNProgrammer

Reputation: 2701

How to Change Colors of a Text Randomly after a (,) split using jquery

i am trying to fix this problem but i am unable to solve it.. I am getting text from a database, a marquee text that scrolls, the point is, i want to change the color of text randomly just after each comma(,) separation... i am able to change the text on page load randomly but the whole text is changed. I want to change text after the omma.. eg. Hello, I am, Nick,
Now Hello Should be displayed in different color, and so on...

Here is my code, but it does all the text random color

        var colours = Array("yellow", "white", "green", "orange"), indexNo;
        $('#header').each(function (index, character) {
            indexNo = Math.floor(Math.random() * colours.length);
            //alert(idx);
            $('#header').css("color", colours[indexNo]);

        });

    }, function () {
        $('#header', this).css("color", "#ddd");
    });

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1264

Answers (2)

Explosion Pills
Explosion Pills

Reputation: 191789

$("#header").each is not necessary since there is only one of those. You can just use the string .split method.

$("#header").html(function (_, html) {
    return html.split(',').reduce(function (prev, cur) {
        return prev + "<span style='color: " +
          colours[Math.floor(Math.random() * colours.length)] + ";'>"
          + cur + "</span>";
    }, '');
});

http://jsbin.com/abikin/1/edit

EDIT: if the commas don't have to go inside of spans you can use this instead:

return html.split(',').map(function (elem) {
    return "<span" ... + elem + "</span>"
}).join(',');

http://jsbin.com/abikin/3/edit

Upvotes: 3

james emanon
james emanon

Reputation: 11817

I just reworked Explosions a little because .reduce is for IE9 or above (I think). I am sure he can do a more elegant version than the following... but worth a shot. Though this gives you all text are random, not sure that is what you want. If not, sorry.

var colours = Array("yellow", "black", "green", "orange","red","purple");
var newHtml = [];
$("#header").html(function (_, html) {
   $.each(html.split(','),function (_,obj) {
     newHtml.push("<span style='color: " + colours[Math.floor(Math.random() * colours.length)] + ";'>" + obj + "</span>");
    });
  return newHtml.join(',');
});

Upvotes: 1

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