The page I am working on has a javascript function executed to print parts of the page. For some reason, printing in Safari, causes the window to somehow update. I say somehow, because it does not really refresh as in reload the page, but rather it starts the "rendering" of the page from start, i.e. scroll to top, flash animations start from 0, and so forth. The effect is reproduced by this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/fYmnB/ Clicking the print button and finishing or cancelling a print in Safari causes the screen to "go white" for a sec, which in my real website manifests itself as something "like" a reload. While running print button with, let's say, Firefox, just opens and closes the print dialogue without affecting the fiddle page in any way. Is there something with my way of calling the browsers print method that causes this, or how can it be explained - and preferably, avoided? P.S.: On my real site the same occurs with Chrome. In the ex
JQuery isn't going to help you a whole lot here as you're not really concerned with DOM traversal/manipulation (other than creating the anchor tag). If all your URLs were in <p class="url"> tags then perhaps.
ReplyDeleteA vanilla JavaScript solution is probably what you want, and as fate would have it, this guy should have you covered.
If you want a solution from another perspective... if you can run the pages through php and HTML Purifier, it can autoformat the output and linkify any urls.
ReplyDeleteDoing this server-side is not an option sometimes. Think of a client-side Twitter widget (that goes directly to Twitter API using jsonp), and you want to linkify all the URLs in the Tweets dynamically...
ReplyDeleteYou are not precise enough on why you want this but...
ReplyDeleteIf this is just about lazyness of creating the links, you should really reconsider using JavaScript to dynamically create links on your website. This means that every browser that don't have JavaScript will not be able to use your website.
There may not be many browsers out there without JavaScript but there are still some important ones like GoogleBot or YahooBot.
If this is really taking you a long time to create the links, you may consider a server-side alternative... Or maybe a not-so-dynamic solution like a Perl or Ruby script that you could run on your source files before deploying them.