HTML&GRAILS - urls text is not displayed as hyperlink

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I have the following gsp code:

<p class="common-text ">${direction?.description?.toHtml()?.decodeHTML()}</p>

direction?.description is a text which the user entered in some input field. This text could includes website URLs like Visit my new site www.example.com

How can I verified if some of the text contains a URL, and if so display it as hyperlink?

The text above should be transformed to something like:

Visit my new site <a href="www.example.com"> www.example.com </a>

Please explain better, you want `description` displayed as the text of an html link? — lifeisfoo, Sep 03 '15 at 08:26

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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You have two way to do this.

Server side with a Grails taglib

You could create a custom Grails taglib that look for URLs in your text and replace with <a> tags when needed. It could be used like this:

<myTagLib:replaceUrls>${direction?.description}</myTagLib:replaceUrls>

Client side with javascript

You can use a javascript library to search URLs in strings and then auto replace them with the proper hyperlink. See this question for more information about this techinque.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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answered Sep 03 '15 at 08:29

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@lifeisfoo- it is. I should display it in
tags no ..... some of the text is regular text
– Sarit Rotshild Sep 03 '15 at 11:43
I can't understand your problem: did you mean that some of the possible values of `direction?.description` could be URLs? – lifeisfoo Sep 03 '15 at 11:48

HTML&GRAILS - urls text is not displayed as hyperlink

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Server side with a Grails taglib

Client side with javascript

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