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JavaScript

Posted by Tony 23
Tony 23
808 Points

How can I build a Javascript Url Parser using Regular Expressions?

The Javascript parser has to find all the urls in the text and open them in a new browser tab when get clicked at the button. I came up with this regular expression: ((([A-Za-z]{3,9}:(?:\/\/)?)(?:[-;:&=+\$,\w]+@)?[A-Za-z0-9.-]+|(?:www.|[-;:&=\+\$,\w]+@)[A-Za-z0-9.-]+)((?:\/[\+~%\/.\w-_]*)?\??(?:[-\+=&;%@.\w_]*)#?(?:[\w]*))?) that finds the URLs I just can't quite understand how I will connect it to my function. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated!!

1 Answer

Clayton Perszyk
MOD
Clayton Perszyk
Treehouse Moderator 49,057 Points
Clayton Perszyk
Clayton Perszyk
Treehouse Moderator 49,057 Points

Not sure this is what you're looking for, but you could use the following in your function to open a url in a new tab:

window.open('https://www.teamtreehouse.com', '_blank');

Just change out the url for your own. You can also pass in a variable that has a url string value.

Tony 23
Tony 23
808 Points

Thanks a lot Clayton. I want to build a form, that once u type a random text with url links inside it and press the submit button, it takes the url links from the text and opens it in a new tab.