What about using a regular expression match/replace? Seems like an obvious candidate.
On 7 Oct 2008, at 04:38, skankster wrote: > > No one? > > On 2 Okt., 14:45, 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!
