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Save the following on a .js file, preferably named jquery.twitterAutoLinks.js<\/strong> Usage<\/strong><\/p>\n After importing the jquery.twitterAutoLinks.js file (make sure it’s after you’ve imported jquery itself), you’ll use the extension as follows.<\/p>\n [html] $(document).ready(function() { <\/script> Save the following on a .js file, preferably named jquery.twitterAutoLinks.js [javascript] \/** Auto replace all Twitter nicknames for links *\/ $.fn.twitterAutoLinks = function() { return this.each(function() { var html = $(this).html(); $(this).html(html.replace(\/B@([w-]+)\/gm, ‘<a href="http:\/\/twitter.com\/$1" target="_blank">@$1<\/a>’)); }); }; [\/javascript] Usage After importing the jquery.twitterAutoLinks.js file (make sure it’s after you’ve imported jquery itself), you’ll use the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ajax","category-code"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-A1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1051,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/jquery-tag-wrapping\/","url_meta":{"origin":2233,"position":0},"title":"jQuery tag wrapping","author":"gubatron","date":"December 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Many times you'll be working on something in HTML that could be long and repetitive, and then for some reason you need to edit the entire thing to wrap each of the tags on some other tags, a common example would be to link many elements. 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\n\/** Auto replace all Twitter nicknames for links *\/
\n$.fn.twitterAutoLinks = function() {
\n return this.each(function() {
\n var html = $(this).html();
\n $(this).html(html.replace(\/B@([w-]+)\/gm, ‘<a href="http:\/\/twitter.com\/$1" target="_blank">@$1<\/a>’));
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\n<script type="text\/javascript" language="Javascript"><\/p>\n
\n \/\/say you’re running a wordpress blog and you want to do this for your posts
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