Using ‘find and replace’ when programming or working with text files can save a lot of time – especially when you get creative. For me, Dreamweaver has the most effective find and replace feature and these days it’s one of the only reasons I open the program. The ability to find and replace using line breaks and other white space characters is something that seems to have been over looked by others, for example Visual Studio.
I will no doubt keep using Dreamweaver (nostalgia maybe), but sometimes I’ve found the need for a web based find and replace. For this reason I’ve created a very simple tool using jQuery that performs the find and replace without reloading the page: