Regex Not Working "within" Javascript String

I'm trying to replace all mentions of [b] in a text string and replace it with . The problem with what I'm using below this that it's replace every [b] on the page, and I

Solution 1:

I'm not exactly sure what the problem is because the question is a bit unclear. Are you trying to replace the content within the textarea with the new html tags?

The following code is currently working for me in production:

text = $("#contract_body").val();  // strore the current contents
text = text.replace(/\[b\](.*?)\[\/b\]/gim, "<strong>$1</strong>");  // replace bbcode with html tags
$("#contract_body").val(text);  // update the textarea with the new string contents

I hope that helps.