How to insert hyperlink into text using jQuery?

Question

I'd like to make an Insert Link button. Here is what I came up with:

$(document).ready(function(){
function HyperLink(elementID, openTag, closeTag) {
    var textArea = $('#' + elementID);
    var len = textArea.val().length;
    var start = textArea[0].selectionStart;
    var end = textArea[0].selectionEnd;
    var selectedText = textArea.val().substring(start, end);
    var replacement = openTag + selectedText + closeTag;
    textArea.val(textArea.val().substring(0, start) + replacement + textArea.val().substring(end, len));
}

$('#btnHyperlink').click(function() {
    HyperLink("id_description", "<a>", "</a>");
});
});

The snippent above embraces text with <a>...</a> , however I don't know how to insert href to the text.

Appreciate your help.

Note:

I want links to be dynamically added to the text, as this button is going to be used in a simple text editor.

Answer 1

You can try like this:

$('#id_description').html('<a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>');

JSFIDDLE DEMO

Not sure if this is what you are looking for but here it goes:

var field = "http://www.google.com"
$(document).ready(function () {
    $('.id_description').each(function () {
        this.innerHTML += ' <a href=" ' +field + '">Google</a>';
    });
});

JSFIDDLE DEMO

Answer 2

Then how about:

$('#btnHyperlink').click(function() {
    var href = prompt("Insert url");
    if(href != "" && href != null)
    {
        HyperLink("id_description", href);
    }
});

And the function:

function HyperLink(elementID, url) {
    var textArea = $('#' + elementID);
    var len = textArea.val().length;
    var start = textArea[0].selectionStart;
    var end = textArea[0].selectionEnd;
    var selectedText = textArea.val().substring(start, end);
    var replacement = $('<div/>').append(
        $('<a/>').attr('href', url).html(selectedText)
    ).html();
    textArea.val(textArea.val().substring(0, start) + replacement + textArea.val().substring(end, len));
}

EDIT

Seems that concatenating an a tag into a string gives just the url, so I wrapped it into a div and extracted its content to output it as a string.

EDIT 2 Seems that I copied a wrong version of the code. Sorry. Here's the JSFiddle:

http://jsfiddle.net/rok1ev0g/

Answer 3

You can give something a href by doing this in JavaScript:

element.href = "url";

In jQuery you can use:

element.attr('href', 'url');

Answer 4

尝试使用jQuery wrap（）

$( "#id_description" ).wrap( '<a href="path"></a>' );

Answer 5

try:

<span class="linkable">Click to insert link</span>

$('.linkable').click(function(){
    var text = $(this).html();
    var link = $("<a>", {
          href: "http://google.com"
        }).html(text);
    $(this).replaceWith(link);
});

JSFiddle

Answer 6

Maybe this?

$("textarea").on("select", function(){
    var start = this.selectionStart;
    var end = this.selectionEnd;

    var text = this.innerHTML.substring(start, end);
    var link = $("#user_link").val();

    var new_link ="<a href='"+link+"' target='_blank'>"+text+"</a>";


    $(this).after(new_link);
});