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Jquery to find a name on html page and add hyperlink

Answer 1

+2 A:

You can use replace method on html:

$('body').html().replace(/\s(65437)\s/g, '<a href=...' + $1 + '</a>');

UPDATE: obviously this example searches only for one specific zip code, but you can adapt the statement by using an array of zip codes and performing a replacement for each code.

mamoo 2010-04-21 14:21:08

or use `.replace(/\s(\d{5}|\d{5}-\d{4})\s/g,` assuming every 5 and 9 digit zip code has an associated page.

Jim Schubert 2010-04-21 14:35:51

Answer 2

+2 A:

this is basically the same as mamoo and Jim posted

slight modifications to the expression and using function instead of $1 for some reason with firebug I get an error trying to use $1

var s = "Jim Nebraska zipcode 65437\nTony lives in California his zipcode is 98708";
// var s = "12345 should be but not this 22 or this 9999999 here is a zip 44444, and then some more content and another one 34366 and so on";
var result = s.replace(/(\b\d{5}-\d{4}\b)|(\b\d{5}\b)/g, function (thisMatch) {
  return "<a href='/" + thisMatch + ".htm'>";
});

this still will not handle leaving a 5 digit street address alone, i.e. 12345 Main St. will end up with a link to 12345

UPDATE: changed the regex to avoid greedy handling of 9999999

from: /(\d{5}-\d{4})|(\d{5})/g
to:   /(\b\d{5}-\d{4}\b)|(\b\d{5}\b)/g

seems to leave the 9999999 alone as desired

house9 2010-04-21 14:43:21

Thanks guys, I will give it a try...this stuff is great

2010-04-21 22:58:23

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