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JavaScript Vue.js Basics Sweeping Vues: Loops, Methods, Directives Conditionally Adding or Removing Classes

Posted by Kristian Woods
Kristian Woods
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How can you add a "-" in between class names that are separated by a space?

I have this solution for challenge she gave in the last video 

      <ul>
        <li v-show="type === '' || type === media.type" 
            v-for="media in mediaList" 
            v-on:click="toggleDetails(media)"
            v-bind:class="[media.showDetail ? 'less': 'more', media.type.replace(' ', '-').toLowerCase()]">
          <h3>{{media.title}}</h3> 
          <div v-show="media.showDetail">
            <p>{{media.description}}</p>
            <p v-if="media.contributor" class="byline">By: {{media.contributor}}</p>
          </div>
        </li>
      </ul>

This works. However, only for the very first space in a string of words. For example:

'str one' => 'str-one'

'str one str two' => 'str-one str two'

Only the first encountered space gets a hyphen... why?

Thanks

3 Answers

Adam Fields
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Mike's answer is the most expressive, since RegEx can be difficult to read for the unfamiliar.

However, to piggyback on Kris' answer, I'd use the RegEx whitespace character:

// \s - matches all whitespace
// g - doesn't stop after the first match
media.type.replace(/\s/g, '-').toLowerCase();
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
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According to this page : If you are replacing a value (and not a regular expression), only the first instance of the value will be replaced. To replace all occurrences of a specified value, use the global (g) modifier.

For example

string.replace(/str /g, "str-");

would replace all instances of str{space} with str-

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I use split, which works well

[media.showDetail ? 'less': 'more', media.type.split(' ').join('-').toLowerCase()]