Id suggest the use of button with some tied javascript that searches the
the textbox string and then writes out the matches as clickable links.
see below for a rough sample:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<script language="javascript">
var exp =
/^[(((ht|f)tp(s?))\:\/\/)]*?(www.|[a-zA-Z].)[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.([a-zA-Z]+)(\:[0-9]+)*(\/($|[a-zA-Z0-9\.\,\;\?\'\\\+&%\$#\=~_\-]+))*$/;
var regex = new RegExp(exp);
regex.multiline = true;
regex.global = true;
function appendResult(str)
{
var res = document.getElementById("result");
res.innerHTML = res.innerHTML + '<br>' + str;
}
function clearResult()
{
var res = document.getElementById("result");
res.innerHTML ='';
}
function writeLinks(str)
{
clearResult();
aStrings = str.split(" ");
for(var i=0; i < aStrings.length; i++)
{
var aMatches = regex.exec(aStrings[i]);
if( aMatches != null)
appendResult('<a href="' + aMatches[0] +'" >' + aMatches[0] +
'</a>');
else
appendResult(aStrings[i]);
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="">
<textarea name="myText" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea><br>
<input type="button" name="write" value="write"
onClick="writeLinks(this.form.myText.value);">
<div id="result">
</form>
</body>
</html>
Cheers
Pat
Palermo, Tiffany wrote:
Hi all,
How can you parse a url from a text area field, and render it as a hyperlink..
I am sick of copying and pasting the url into a browser window, I want the
Hyperlink to be clickable, any code you guys can donate would be appreciated..
Regards.
Tiffany Palermo.
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