Text to clickable links

What gets linked — and what does not

Addresses starting with http://, https:// or www. and anything shaped like an email address. Trailing punctuation — the full stop at the end of a sentence, a closing bracket — is left outside the link, which is the most common bug in hand-made linkifiers. Bare domains without www. (like example.com) are left as text to avoid false matches such as file names (index.html).

Safe for user content

Every non-link character is HTML-escaped, so pasted text containing <, > or quotes cannot break your page or inject script. That makes the output safe to drop into a CMS, an email template or a static page.

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