Question

Is it possible to find all strings starts with http & https in a paragraph and convert into links using jquery?

I got my twitt list in my website and all lines starts with http & https display as normal string [text]. I want to convert them into hyperlinks. Is this possible with javascript, jQuery.

Answer 1

Here is code to check URL’s in string and convert it as link. This will detect links which are started with WWW also. Hope this will helps.

function Checkurl(text) {
        var url1 = /(^|<|\s)(www\..+?\..+?)(\s|>|$)/g,
        url2 = /(^|<|\s)(((https?|ftp):\/\/|mailto:).+?)(\s|>|$)/g;

        var html = $.trim(text);
        if (html) {
            html = html
                .replace(url1, '$1<a style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline;" target="_blank"  href="http://$2">$2</a>$3')
                .replace(url2, '$1<a style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline;" target="_blank"  href="$2">$2</a>$5');
        }
        return html;
    }