How can I stop regex from messing with font-awesome?

Question

I need to hide the special character #, using regex I'm this far. It is now removing break tags, as well as font-awesome characters, and possibly a number of other things.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

<p>#hello ## <i class="fa fa-map-marker"></i><br>secondline</p>

$("p").text(function() {
    return $(this).text().replace(/(#)/g, '');
});

Fiddle

Answer 1

You're using text() instead of html() so it's not your regex but it's jQuery to remove the tags

$("p").html(function() {
    return $(this).html().replace(/(#)/g, '');
});

Answer 2

Try using .html() instead of .text() - that'll strip your HTML out:

$("p").html(function() {
    return $(this).html().replace(/\#/g,'');
});