Replace text without affecting children keeping ordering

by Doug Collins

HTML

<div id="parent"> Some text
    <div>Child1</div>
    <div>Child2</div>
    and some other text
    <div>Child3</div>
    <div>Child4</div>
    and here we are again
  </div>

JavaScript

$('#parent').contents().filter(function() {
        return this.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE && this.nodeValue.trim() != '';
    }).each(function() {
    		//You can ignore the span class info I added for my pariculare application.
        $(this).replaceWith(this.nodeValue.replace(/(\w+)/g,"<span class='IIIclassIII$1' onclick='_mc(this)' onmouseover='_mr(this);' onmouseout='_mt(this);'>$1X</span>"));
	});