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PHPNewbie
PHPNewbie

Reputation: 41

Removing prefixes from link text using Javascript

I've got a directory listing script that outputs the names of various organisations and their website address. The link that to the website that the user sees looks like http://www.whatever.com or http://whatever.com

To make things look a little prettier I'd like to remove the http:// element of the link. So the end result from the user perspective should, in html terms, look like justthedomainname.com

The way in which the php script is written and outputs makes doing this a little bit of a pain, and I thought it might be easier to accomplish with some javascript instead.

I initially tried something like:

<script>
var curInnerHTML = document.body.innerHTML;
curInnerHTML = curInnerHTML.replace("http://", "");
document.body.innerHTML = curInnerHTML;
</script>

This however doesn't work, because it's looking for an exact string of "http://", when this will always be followed by the actual domain.

Any idea how I can accomplish this in pure JS?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1049

Answers (4)

Stefan Avramovic
Stefan Avramovic

Reputation: 1353

Try this

function remove(){
  
  var a = document.getElementById('target').getElementsByTagName('a');
  var attr;
  for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
        attr = a[i].getAttribute("href").replace("http://", "");
        a[i].text = attr;
 
  }
  
}
 

remove();
 <div id="target">
    <a href="http://test1.com">http://test1.com</a>
   <a href="http://test2.com">http://test2.com</a>
  </div>

Upvotes: 0

Ito Pizarro
Ito Pizarro

Reputation: 1607

If you're looking for <a> elements exclusively and are only trying to replace the text content that the [user] sees:

document.querySelectorAll( 'a[href^="http"]' ).forEach( function ( current ) {
    current.textContent = current.href.split('//')[ 1 ];
} );

With a caveat about .forEach() on a .querySelectorAll() NodeList

Upvotes: 0

TeaNyan
TeaNyan

Reputation: 5079

If I understood you correctly, you want to remove http://www. from a string containing URL of some website.

You can do it with regex 

let result = url.replace(/^(https?:\/\/)?(www\.)?/,'', '');

If you only want to strip http:// and keep www then use this regex

let result = url.replace(/(^\w+:|^)\/\//,'', '');

Here is a working snippet 

let url =  "http://www.whatever.com";
let result = url.replace(/^(https?:\/\/)?(www\.)?/,'', '');
console.log(result);

Upvotes: 0

Amiratak88
Amiratak88

Reputation: 1529

You need a regex instead of a string. Something like this.

curInnerHTML = curInnerHTML.replace(/^https?:\/\//i, "");

Upvotes: 1

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