Thanks Karl!!! That's WAY better than what I came up with. I knew there was a better way.
_____ From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl Swedberg Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:51 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Create link around email anywhere on page? Hi Andy, Although I'm not sure about performance and I'm guessing that the regular expression could be improved, I have a 3-liner that should work in most cases: var markup = $('body').html(); var modMarkup = markup.replace(/([EMAIL PROTECTED],4})/g,'<a href="mailto\:$1">$1<\/a>') $('body').html(modMarkup); Hope that helps. --Karl _________________ Karl Swedberg www.englishrules.com www.learningjquery.com On Oct 18, 2007, at 12:04 PM, Andy Matthews wrote: This is what I've got so far. I've got the individual strings isolated, but I'm not really sure how to them into the page where they belong. HTML ---------- <body> <p> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kilohertz [EMAIL PROTECTED], transistorized. Converter [EMAIL PROTECTED] services extended patch, interface [EMAIL PROTECTED] </p> </body> JS ------------ $(document).ready(function(){ // create array of individual strings by splitting out the // contents of the body tag var textArr = $('body').text().split(' '); // loop over this array to check for strings containing an @ for (s=0;s<textArr.length;s++) { // temp var var str = textArr[s]; // does this specific string contain an @? if (str.match('@') == '@') { // it does, but we want to make sure that there's no // periods or commas at the end of the string var final = str.replace(/[\.,]$/,''); alert(final); } } }); _____ From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Matthews Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:29 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Create link around email anywhere on page? Just to clarify, I'm looking to convert this HTML: Logistically remote [EMAIL PROTECTED], infrared extended cable prototype feedback, software, encapsulated port element technician development logistically [EMAIL PROTECTED] to this: Logistically remote <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>, infrared extended cable prototype feedback, software, encapsulated port element technician development logistically <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a >. _____ From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Matthews Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:16 AM To: [jQuery] Subject: [jQuery] Create link around email anywhere on page? My company has some poorly written legacy code that outputs email fields to the page. Problem is that the email field variable named is itself variable. We don't know in advance that any specific field contains an email or not. So what I'd like to do is after the page is rendered, parse through the page and make a mailto link out of any string which contains an @ symbol. Does anyone have something like this already, or might have suggestions as to where to start with writing it myself? ____________________________________ Andy Matthews Senior ColdFusion Developer <dealerskinslogo.bmp> Office: 877.707.5467 x747 Direct: 615.627.9747 Fax: 615.467.6249 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dealerskins.com <http://www.dealerskins.com/>
