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---
title: Automatic text linking
type: snippet
tags: [components,fragment,regexp]
author: chalarangelo
cover: red-petals
dateModified: 2020-11-03T20:42:15+02:00
---
Renders a string as plaintext, with URLs converted to appropriate link elements.
- Use `String.prototype.split()` and `String.prototype.match()` with a regular expression to find URLs in a string.
- Return matched URLs rendered as `<a>` elements, dealing with missing protocol prefixes if necessary.
- Render the rest of the string as plaintext.
```jsx
const AutoLink = ({ text }) => {
const delimiter = /((?:https?:\/\/)?(?:(?:[a-z0-9]?(?:[a-z0-9\-]{1,61}[a-z0-9])?\.[^\.|\s])+[a-z\.]*[a-z]+|(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)){3})(?::\d{1,5})*[a-z0-9.,_\/~#&=;%+?\-\\(\\)]*)/gi;
return (
<>
{text.split(delimiter).map(word => {
const match = word.match(delimiter);
if (match) {
const url = match[0];
return (
<a href={url.startsWith('http') ? url : `http://${url}`}>{url}</a>
);
}
return word;
})}
</>
);
};
```
```jsx
ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('root')).render(
<AutoLink text="foo bar baz http://example.org bar" />
);
```