(Javascript) Convert plain text links to clickable links

Question

Long story short, I have a website made under Wix.com editor, and coding was made possible a few months ago. I have set up a custom comment box, so users can post their comm

Answer 1

Here is my answer (improved Version including video links).

See also this Codepen here.

const convertLinks = ( input ) => {

  let text = input;
  const linksFound = text.match( /(?:www|https?)[^\s]+/g );
  const aLink = [];

  if ( linksFound != null ) {

    for ( let i=0; i

' ) } else if ( linkText.match( /vimeo/ ) ) { let vimeoID = replace.split( '/' ).slice(-1)[0]; aLink.push( '

' ) } else { aLink.push( '' + linkText + '' ); } text = text.split( linksFound[i] ).map(item => { return aLink[i].includes('iframe') ? item.trim() : item } ).join( aLink[i] ); } return text; } else { return input; } }