jQuery Tweetify Text

Chris Coyier on

Function

$.fn.tweetify = function() {	this.each(function() {	$(this).html(	$(this).html()	.replace(/((ftp|http|https):\/\/(\w+:{0,1}\w*@)?(\S+)(:[0-9]+)?(\/|\/([\w#!:.?+=&%@!\-\/]))?)/gi,'<a href="$1">$1</a>')	.replace(/(^|\s)#(\w+)/g,'$1<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23$2">#$2</a>')	.replace(/(^|\s)@(\w+)/g,'$1<a href="http://twitter.com/$2">@$2</a>')	);	});	return $(this); }

Usage

$("p").tweetify();

Before

<p>@seanhood have you seen this http://icanhascheezburger.com/ #lol</p>

After

<p><a href="http://twitter.com/seanhood">@seanhood</a> have you seen this <a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/">http://icanhascheezburger.com/</a> <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23lol">#lol</a></p>