How to apply css to only numbers in a text inside/or any <p><p> element?

Question

I am Using a Regional language unicode font-face in my site but the numbers are not looking good.

So I want to apply new font-style or css to numbers only..

please help

Billat

Can you please provide your code or show the demo using fiddle.net – Burma

You cannot apply a css to text nodes, so you will have to wrap the number in some elements like span to style it – Withdrawn

If some (important) characters do not look good in the font you have chosen, you should first look for a better font, secondly try and find a more suitable font, and thirdly ask (somewhere, not at SO) for help in finding an adequate font. – Nonmetallic

@JukkaK.Korpela.. I have only 2 options for font-face selection which support all browsers including ie (Local Language) so there is no other alternatives. – Billat

Answer 1

This can be done using CSS's unicode-range property which exists within @font-face.

The numbers 0 to 9 exist in Unicode within the range U+0030 to U+0039. So what you'll need to do is include a font alongside your existing font which specifically targets this range:

@font-face { 
    font-family: 'My Pre-Existing Font';
    ...
}
@font-face {
    font-family: 'My New Font Which Handles Numbers Correctly';
    ...
    unicode-range: U+30-39;
}

The result of this will be that every instance of Unicode characters U+0030 (0) through to U+0039 (9) will be displayed in the font which specifically targets that range, and every other character will be in your current font.

Zoroastrianism

This is a very nice solution but you might want to implement a javascript fallback if browser doesn't support unicode-range... As far as I know its a pretty new specification. – Undrape

unicode-range isn’t supported by Firefox or by IE versions up to IE 8. – Nonmetallic

Depending on what “number” means, you might need to add “.”, “,”, “’”, “-”, “−”, “+”, etc., and then you would have problems, since they may appear outside numbers, too. The rule given is as such OK for unsigned integers (digit sequences). – Nonmetallic

@JukkaK.Korpela..Ok..Thank you..Let me try..(Y) – Billat

Would it be possible to give a working demo of this? e.g. jsfiddle.net/geotheory/e0owrwne – Rooney

@Rooney see my answer for more clarification https://mcmap.net/q/911177/-css-styling-numbers-and-text-with-different-fonts – Ginnygino

This code worked for me, Thanks – Kyla

Incredible. For anyone wondering how to make your project recognize these two fonts, you gotta do something like font-family: "My Pre-Existing Font", "My New Font Which Handles Numbers Correctly"; – Cubicle

Answer 2

You can wrap all numbers in p tags with a <span class="number">:

CSS

.number {
   font-family: Verdana;
}

jQuery

$('p').html(function(i, v){
    return v.replace(/(\d)/g, '<span class="number">$1</span>');
});

But personally, I would go with James suggestion ;)

http://jsfiddle.net/ZzBN9/

Forestry

I know it's late, but what about return v.replace(/(\d+)/g, etc... ? That groups 12 and 1234 together into one span, instead of putting a span on each digit. – Degenerate

Answer 3

There is no way to apply CSS to all numbers specifically. In each number tag you could add the attribute class='number' and then in the CSS you could add

.number {
   font-family: arial;
}

Ugo

Answer 4

Better with this

$('p').html(function(i, v){
    return v.replace(/(\d+)/g, '<span class="number">$1</span>');
});

With + you avoid one span per complete number (span for 321), not one per each number found (span for 3 for 2 and for 1)

Bronchial

Answer 5

You can use the regex replace and detect the numbers then add the class

following code:

$('p').html(function(i,c) {
    return c.replace(/\d+/g, function(v){
    return "<span class='numbers'>" + v + "</span>";
    });
});

.numbers
{
color:red;
font-size:30px;
}

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