Replacing Greater Than/Less Than Sign for Smilies?

[barkster]

I'm trying to loop through my smilies when a user types on and I cannot get it to work for smilies that contain the < or > signs.  How can I do a replace on those exactly.  I've tried using reg ex but can't get it to work either. 

 

This is what I'm doing but doesn't work right

 

var smileys = new Object();

smileys[':-O']='smiley-yell';

smileys['']='smiley';

smileys['>:->']='smiley-twist';

 

for(var index in smileys) {

//cleanmsg = cleanmsg.replace(new RegExp(index, 'g' ),'<img class="smiley" src="smileys/'+smileys[index]+'.png" alt="'+index+'">');

cleanmsg = cleanmsg.replace(index,'<img class="smiley" src="smileys/'+smileys[index]+'.png" alt="'+index+'">');

}

[lemmin]

I just copied your code and it worked for me. I alerted the altered string and it IS replacing it. My guess is that your image that is used for the smiles with '<' and '>' can't be found so it just displays the alt (in Firefox probably).