Javascript Regex to replace URLs with links, but not in embed (or img) tags

Question

I\'m currently using the following code, to search the a div on a page for URLs and replace them with a tags.

However when we have a embed tags within the div it me

Answer 1

+1 to what Johannes says...

    $(document).ready(function(){
       $('div.content').contents().filter(function() {
         return this.nodeType == 3;
       }).each(function(){
             this.nodeValue.replace(/(ftp|http|https|file):\/\/[\S]+(\b|$)/gim,'$&').replace(/([^\/])(www[^ <]+(\b|$))/gim,'$1$2');
       });
    });

Note the code above is untested but it should look something like that i believe.