Javascript - Capitalize Each Word in a String

Submitted by rcastera on Sun, 07/27/2008 - 09:51

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This is a great little function that I whipped up and use to capitalize every word in a string. I can't tell you how many times I've had to use this. Hope you find it useful as I have!

<script type="text/javascript">
function wordToUpper(strSentence) {
    return strSentence.toLowerCase().replace(/\b[a-z]/g, convertToUpper);

    function convertToUpper() {
        return arguments[0].toUpperCase();
    }
}
</script>

1 comments for Javascript - Capitalize Each Word in a String

Thanks for this helpful...

Posted by Martin on 09/01/2011.

Thanks for this helpful tidbit! I had a similar need and your function provided the answer. In my case, I had to get the first letter of each word in a string (for initials of a person), so this is what mine looks like:

initials = firstnames.match(/\b[a-z]/g).join("").toUpperCase();

Richard Castera