Hi Ariel, Thanks for your answer. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Cheers, Dirk On 7 Okt., 04:30, Ariel Flesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can check my "Textnode Translator". I made a simple example where > it replaces textual emails. > That's just an example of course. I'd not rely on that code as it is. > > http://flesler.blogspot.com/2008/05/textnode-translator-for-javascrip... > > Alternatively, you can solve this with this Tokenizer, pretty simple > too: > > http://flesler.blogspot.com/2008/03/string-tokenizer-for-javascript.html > > Cheers > -- > Ariel Fleslerhttp://flesler.blogspot.com > > On Oct 2, 9:45 am, skankster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I have a div that contains simple text data with line breaks. I want > > to append a mailto link to the email address but so far I have not > > been able to select the email. > > > The container looks something like this: > > > <div id="myId"> > > Username: Johnny<br /> > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > </div> > > > With the help of jQuery it should look like this: > > > <div id="myId"> > > Username: Johnny<br /> > > Email: <a href="mailto:";>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a> > > </div> > > > My first intention was to use a filter like: > > > $('#myId').contents().filter(':contains("@")'); > > > but I found out that I couldn't apply it since the container had no > > children. So I used a function first to wrap the elements into span > > tags and then applied 'find': > > > $.fn.orphans = function(){ > > var ret = []; > > this.each(function(){$.each(this.childNodes, function() {if > > (this.nodeType == 3 &! $.nodeName(this, "br") ) > > ret.push(this)})}); > > return $(ret); > > } > > > $(document).ready(function() { > > $('#myId').orphans().wrap('<span/>'); > > $('#myId').find(':contains("@")').wrap('<a href="mailto:"/>'); > > > }); > > > I'm still at a loss as to how to select just the email address without > > the preceeding 'Email:' and am wondering if I'm not heading in a > > totally wrong direction with the orphan wrapping function. > > > I gladly appreciate any assistance offered concerning this issue!
