Question

I know this issue has been discussed numerous times, but I think this is the solution best for me:

Given a string of text, if there is a an occurance of “www.blah.com”, then wrap it with <a href="http://www.blah.com">

How can I do that in Javascript?

Also, if there is an occurance of “http://www.blah.com”, do the same thing (but do not add an extra “http://”)

Answer 1

I recommend you take a look at open-source solutions such as Linkify:

• https://github.com/maranomynet/linkify

Here is sample how to do it:

jQuery('body').linkify({

          handleLinks: function (links) {
              links
                  .css('background', '#ff0')
                  .after(function (i) { return ' (link '+(i+1)+')'; });
            }

        });