Question

I’m not sure how to do this.
Anyway to detect a url as content, and, then concat a tag around it?

I want this to be done in Javascript. Outputted in HTML.

Let’s say I have a string with regular text, as well as a url in it.

Answer 1

Something like this:

• http://benalman.com/code/javascript/ba-linkify.js

would do the job once you’ve identified your links. To do that you have to restrict the format of links, for example by requiring that they include the http:// (or https:// etc.). If you’re only looking for well-formed links, you can search for strings beginning with http:// etc. and ending before the first non-URL character:

• http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm#whatwhy

using regexp character classes:

• http://www.regular-expressions.info/charclass.html.