JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

by rlemon

HTML

<span id="foo">Hello world, this http://google.ca is a http://facebook.com/ link</span>

JavaScript

var foo = document.getElementById('foo');

function make_link(string) {
    var words = string.split(' '),
        ret = document.createDocumentFragment();
    for (var i = 0, l = words.length; i < l; i++) {
        if (words[i].match(/[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]{2,256}\.[a-z]{2,4}\b(\/[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)?/gi)) {
            var elm = document.createElement('a');
            elm.href = words[i];
            elm.textContent = words[i];
            if (ret.childNodes.length > 0) {
                ret.lastChild.textContent += ' ';
            }
            ret.appendChild(elm);
        } else {
            if (ret.lastChild && ret.lastChild.nodeType === 3) {
                ret.lastChild.textContent += ' ' + words[i];
            } else {
                ret.appendChild(document.createTextNode(' ' + words[i]));
            }
        }
    }
    return ret;
}

var df = make_link(foo.textContent);
while (foo.hasChildNodes()) {
    foo.removeChild(foo.lastChild);
}
foo.appendChild(df);