LINKIFY Example - Basic Roll Your Own Function/Plugin

HTML

<div id="example">Hier stehen ein paar Links: www.facebook.com (http://www.google.de(google)) oder http://www.amazon.de oder auch www.adac.de <br/><br/>Und Emailadressen gehen auch: [email protected]</div>

JavaScript

(function($) {
  $.linkify = function(el) {
    var inputText = el.html();

    //URLs starting with http://, https://, or ftp://
    var replacePattern1 = /(\b(https?|ftp):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|])/gim;
    var replacedText = inputText.replace(replacePattern1, '<a href="$1" target="_blank">$1</a>');

    //URLs starting with www. (without // before it, or it'd re-link the ones done above)
    var replacePattern2 = /(^|[^\/])(www\.[\S]+(\b|$))/gim;
    replacedText = replacedText.replace(replacePattern2, '$1<a href="http://$2" target="_blank">$2</a>');

    //Change email addresses to mailto:: links
    var replacePattern3 = /(\w+@[a-zA-Z_]+?\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6})/gim;
    replacedText = replacedText.replace(replacePattern3, '<a href="mailto:$1">$1</a>');

    el.html(replacedText);
  }
})(jQuery);


$(function() {
    $.linkify($('#example'));
});