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Hi kyazdani,

Can you put some html, please?

Regards.

Improper use of find() . Mehtod is ued to find jquery selectors, either tags, ID's or class
http://api.jquery.com/find/

you want to use :contains selector to locate specific text
http://api.jquery.com/contains-selector/

then use javascript replace() method on the text string
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/replace

like this?

http://jsfiddle.net/WyCmF/

okay i have changed it a little bit as follows:

1.     $('#catprods_tbl tbody tr td.column_main font').each(function() {
2.         var t = $(this).text().trim();
3.         var first = t.indexOf("%) ");
4.         var last = indexOf(" (£");
5.         var begin = t.substr(0, first);
6.         var end = t.substr(last);
7.         $(this).text(begin+"off RRP"+end);
8.         })

1. $('#catprods_tbl tbody tr td.column_main font')     
   

givs you the wanted selection

1. var t = $(this).text().trim();

this is the actual text, the first one is "(60%) off RRP (£75.00)"
the .trim() is for deleting blanks at the start or the end of a string

1. var first = t.indexOf("%) ");

"%) " are the last chars before the expression we are looking for "off RRP"

1. var begin = t.substr(0, first);

this gives us for example "(60%) ", the part of the string from 0 until first
var end is nearly the same.
now we have a string before "off RRP" and a string after "off RRP"
we can build a new string begin +"off RRP"+end and assign it to the .text() method

that's it

sorry, it's more easy as i thought, you can write it as follows:

1.     $('#catprods_tbl tbody tr td.column_main font').each(function() {
2.         var t = $(this).text();
3.         var str = t.replace("on", "off");
4.         $(this).text(str);
5.         })

you take the whole string and replace "on" by "off",
that's all, is't it coooooolllll?