Highlighting links in text using “linky” filter

At times we come across few cases where we need to differentiate the links amongst the plain text. Angular provide us with a very useful filter named : “linky” which help us to do so.

With the help of linky filter we can detect links from text and show them differently . Linky takes text and produces HTML by wrapping all URLs into anchor tags. It supports email address , http, https, and mailto.

For this you would require the ngSanitize module in angular app.

In HTML binding

You can also define the target for high-lighted links like this-

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head lang="en">

    <meta charset="UTF-8">

    <title>Lets try linky filter</title>

    <script type="application/javascript" src="angular.js"></script>

    <script src="LinkyCtrl.js"></script>

    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.1/angular-sanitize.min.js"></script>

</head>

<body>

<div ng-app="myApp" ng-controller="myController">

    <div>

        <p ng-bind-html="myText | linky :'_blank'"></p>

        <textarea ng-model="myText" style="width: 420px; height: 120px"></textarea>

    </div>

</div>

</body>

</html>

In our angular controller,

var myApp = angular.module('myApp', ['ngSanitize'])

    .controller('myController', ['$scope', function ($scope) {

        $scope.myText = "Some default text is here http://www.intelligrape.com/";

}]);

So in this way we can quickly highlight the links in angular.

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April 9, 2020
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