Question

I have a large blocks or text on a message board that will contain strings beginning with #. Can I use jquery to replace these with a link containing the string?

For example, changing:

<div id="mydiv">This is my #block of text with #multiple hash strings</div>

to:

<div id="mydiv">This is my <a href="newpage.asp?block">#block</a> of text with <a href="newpage.asp?multiple">#multiple</a> hash strings</div>

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You could use the following code to replace strings:

var string = "#has etc #has ";
string = string.replace(/#(\S+)/g, '<a href="newpage.asp?$1">#$1</a>');