$(function()
{
var re =
/(https?:\/\/(([-\w\.]+)+(:\d+)?(\/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?))/ig;
$('#foo').html($('#foo').html().replace(re, '<a href="$1"
title="">$1</a>'));
});
If you want the link text with the 'http://' bit, use '<a href="$1"
title="">$2</a>'
There are scads of URL regexps floating around online. This one works
for me but YMMV.
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Blake<stickynote...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On my site, I would like to have jQuery automatically convert all
> plain-text URLs to links.
>
> For example, if I have the following in the BODY tag of my Web page:
>
> Go to http://groups.google.com to go to the Google Groups home page.
>
> I want it to be converted in to this:
>
> Go to <a href="http://groups.google.com";>http://groups.google.com</a>
> to go to the Google Groups home page.
>
> I'm sure the prepend() and append() functions will be used, but how do
> I tell jQuery how to pick URLs out of the Web page, if they are not
> surrounded by separate tags? I'm sure if each URL was in a SPAN tag it
> would be much easier.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> stickynote427
