A simple regex should take care of that for you. Just search for any occurrence of @<any number of letters of numbers> and wrap the result in an href tag.
-----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Betty B Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 1:28 PM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Autolinking Twitter @usernames with jQuery Hi, Fairly new to this, I'd like to know if such a thing is possible with jQuery: I have a social bookmarks-like page where users can post a link and description. I'd like to have some kind of function that would automatically link @USERNAME to that persons Twitter page (http:// twitter.com/USERNAME) when, or if, they add their @USERNAME to the description field. (div class="description") Can this be done with jQuery? Could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, BB