JQuery Replace Any Text in Element with New Text

It's quite easy to find specific text with JQuery but I want to find any text within a specific element and replace it. I'm using load() to get an element from another page so the text will vary, that's why I can'开发者_开发百科t rely on using :contains().

$("#results").load('http://www.test.com/url.html .ms-bodyareaframe .ms-vb-title a', function() {
    ('.ms-vb a').html("New Text");
});

The html of the element that's being loaded is:

<td class="ms-vb">
<a>
Old Text
</a>
</td>

It doesn't matter to me if the text replacement is done within the load using a function() or if it's done separately after the page is loaded. But I've tried several ways and I have not been able to get this to work.

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This is how you can find and replace values in text nodes in a manageable manner:

function findAndReplace(elements, textToFind, textToPlace) {
    $.each(elements.contents(), function () {
        // This is added to make sure the nodes you request are text nodes
        if (this.nodeType == 3)
            this.nodeValue = this.nodeValue.replace(textToFind, textToPlace);
    });
}

findAndReplace($('your element(s)'), 'textToFind', 'textToPlace');