Question

I have a textbox and I need a script to detect when a user types a link using space as a delimiter. I know how to detect links with regex, but I don’t know how to effectively check for links (think of Facebook’s status updates; type a link, hit space, and it looks that link up). Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you are using jQuery its done like this:

$('#someElement').keyUp(function(event){
    if(event.keyCode == 32){
      //Regex goes here
    }

})