Thank you, Ricardo. Although I don't like to think of dead cats...
;)

On 8 Okt., 21:04, ricardobeat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's a quick short function that will do the job:
>
> $('#deadcat').each(function(){
>     var lnk = $(this).html().replace(/([\w-]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]+)/, '<a
> href="mailto:$1";>$1</a>');
>     $(this).html(lnk);
>
> });
>
> hope that helps,
> - ricardo
>
> On Oct 7, 3:06 am, "David C. Zentgraf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > What about using a regular expression match/replace? Seems like an  
> > obvious candidate.
>
> > On 7 Oct 2008, at 04:38, skankster wrote:
>
> > > No one?
>
> > > On 2 Okt., 14:45, skankster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> Hi,
>
> > >> I have a div that contains simple text data with line breaks. I want
> > >> to append a mailto link to the email address but so far I have not
> > >> been able to select the email.
>
> > >> The container looks something like this:
>
> > >> <div id="myId">
> > >>         Username: Johnny<br />
> > >>         Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >> </div>
>
> > >> With the help of jQuery it should look like this:
>
> > >> <div id="myId">
> > >>         Username: Johnny<br />
> > >>         Email: <a href="mailto:";>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>
> > >> </div>
>
> > >> My first intention was to use a filter like:
>
> > >> $('#myId').contents().filter(':contains("@")');
>
> > >> but I found out that I couldn't apply it since the container had no
> > >> children. So I used a function first to wrap the elements into span
> > >> tags and then applied 'find':
>
> > >>   $.fn.orphans = function(){
> > >>         var ret = [];
> > >>         this.each(function(){$.each(this.childNodes, function() {if
> > >>                 (this.nodeType == 3 &! $.nodeName(this, "br") )  
> > >> ret.push(this)})});
> > >>         return $(ret);
> > >>    }
>
> > >>  $(document).ready(function() {
> > >>         $('#myId').orphans().wrap('<span/>');
> > >>         $('#myId').find(':contains("@")').wrap('<a href="mailto:"/
> > >> >');
>
> > >>  });
>
> > >> I'm still at a loss as to how to select just the email address  
> > >> without
> > >> the preceeding 'Email:' and am wondering if I'm not heading in a
> > >> totally wrong direction with the orphan wrapping function.
>
> > >> I gladly appreciate any assistance offered concerning this issue!

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