Question

HTML:

<input type="text" name="field" id="field" value="Select this text http://www.domain.com" />

JavaScript/JQuery:

$(document).ready(function()
{
    var value = $('#field').val();

    //select text
});

How can I select all the text that appears before a url? Everything after the url (including the url itself) should not be selected.

BTW, the text may also contain numbers and special characters.

Solution:
I ended up using Rocket’s solution split(/\shttps?:\/\//) (see below).

Answer 1

If the url will always be of the hypertext protocol, then you can do the following:

$(document).ready(function() {
    var myText = $('#field').val().split(' http')[0];
});

This will capture both http and https protocols, and is the least computing-intensive approach as far as I can tell.