REPLACE WORKAROUND attempt 1

first answer from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12770045/javascript-replace-alternative this one works here. will test in ebay.

by Christopher Pearson

HTML

<div id="page" class="listing-details">
     
    <ul class="tabs">
        <li><a href="#item-details">Details</a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#item-sizing">Sizing</a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#item-condition">Condition</a>
        </li>
    </ul>
    <div id="item-details" class="item-content">
        <p>YO YO YO</p>
    </div>
    <div id="item-sizing" class="item-content">
        <p>WHASSUP DOG!</P>
    </div>
    <div id="item-condition" class="item-content">
        <p>CAP YO ASS.</p>
    </div>
</div>
<!-- end item details section -->

JavaScript

String.prototype.switcher=function(str, newstr) {
    return this.split(str).join(newstr);
};

var Tabs = {
    className: "tabs",
    activeClass: "active",

    addEvent: function (obj, type, fn) {
        if (obj.attachEvent) {
            obj['e' + type + fn] = fn;
            obj[type + fn] = function () {
                obj['e' + type + fn](window.event);
            };
            obj.attachEvent('on' + type, obj[type + fn]);
        } else {
            obj.addEventListener(type, fn, false);
        }
    },

    create: function (tabs, callbacks) {
        if (!tabs.length) {
            this.createSingle(tabs, callbacks);
        } else {
            this.createGroup(tabs, callbacks);
        }
    },

    createSingle: function (tab, callbacks) {
        if (this.Element.hasClass(tab, this.activeClass)) {
            this.Element.show(this.getTarget(tab));
        }
        this.addEvent(tab, "click", function (e) {
            if (Tabs.callback(this, callbacks, "click", e)) {
                Tabs.Element.toggleClass(this, Tabs.activeClass);
                if (Tabs.callback(this, callbacks, "show", e)) {
                    Tabs.Element.toggleVisibility(Tabs.getTarget(this));
                }
            }
            if (e.preventDefault) { // For DOM compliant browsers http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Events-20001113/events.html#Events-Event-preventDefault
                e.preventDefault();
            } else { // For MSIE http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536913.aspx
                e.returnValue = false;
            }
        });
    },

    createGroup: function (tabs, callbacks) {
        var active,
        tab,
        i;

        function tabClickHandler(e) {
            if (Tabs.callback(this, callbacks, "click", e, active)) {
                Tabs.Element.removeClass(active, Tabs.activeClass);
                Tabs.Element.addClass(this, Tabs.activeClass);
                var from = active;
                active = this;
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