In case it's helpful, here's the code I use in my Twitter election map:
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/elections/#twitter
function atLinks( str ) {
return str.replace(
/(^|\s)@([\w_]+)/g,
'$1@<a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/$2";>$2</a>'
);
}
It goes to a tiny bit of extra work to distinguish @twittername references
from [EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses.
This isn't the jQuery part, just the string parsing.
-Mike
> From: Andy Matthews
>
> A simple regex should take care of that for you. Just search
> for any occurrence of @<any number of letters of numbers> and
> wrap the result in an href tag.
> From: Betty B
>
> Fairly new to this, I'd like to know if such a thing is possible with
> jQuery:
>
> I have a social bookmarks-like page where users can post a
> link and description. I'd like to have some kind of function
> that would automatically link @USERNAME to that persons
> Twitter page (http://
> twitter.com/USERNAME) when, or if, they add their @USERNAME
> to the description field. (div class="description")
>
> Can this be done with jQuery? Could someone point me in the
> right direction?
