Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I have a Javascript function that receives a string.
that string may have URLs in it, with, or without http:// or http/s:
example string:
This is an example string with www.cnn.com and http://microsoft.com"
my purpose is to take that string and inject anchor tags for the URLs such that they are clickable when injected as HTML to an html document.
Is there anything I can use that does this? some Jquery function?
No native jQuery function for this but regular expression can do this
Let me give point you to this blog post that will get you started. What it has is a regular expression (may seem rather complicated and complex, but is not that much) that can detect links and emails in strings so you’ll be able to find them and replace them with links that point to extracted URLs.
Maybe an even better expression (that I know I used in the past) has been published by Stackoverflow’s own Jeff Atwood. He also describes the whole URL situation in very much detail so you can decide whether this applies to your problem and how much or not.