Question

I’m trying to find a way to automatically convert links in a panel to hyper-links. So for example a user input is:

"And here you can find my awesome example: http://example.com"

Is it possible in wicket to add an anchor element to each “http://…” text, so the above example would output

"And here you can find my awesome example: <a href="http://example.com">http://example.com</a>"

instead?

Answer 1

You can use Wicket’s built in SmartLinkLabel.

From the Javadoc:

If you have email addresses or web URLs in the data that you are displaying, then you can automatically display those pieces of data as hyperlinks, you will not have to take any action to convert that data.