Here's a quick short function that will do the job:
$('#deadcat').each(function(){
var lnk = $(this).html().replace(/([\w-]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]+)/, '<a
href="mailto:$1";>$1</a>');
$(this).html(lnk);
});
hope that helps,
- ricardo
On Oct 7, 3:06 am, "David C. Zentgraf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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!
