Question

Below code works on the Mootools library, I would like it to work on jQuery if possible, I so far had no luck.

HTML

<p id="test">@user has an email address of [e-mail]. See! the regexp works @people!</p>

MooTools

$('test').set('html', $('test').get('html').replace(/\B\@([\w\-]+)/gim, function(match, name){
    return '<a href="http://twitter.com/users/' + name + '">' + match + '</a>';
}));

Fiddle

Answer 1

Try this:

$('#test').html($('#test').html().replace(/\B\@([\w\-]+)/gim, function(match, name){
    return '<a href="http://twitter.com/users/' + name + '">' + match + '</a>';
}));

Example fiddle