enabling dynamic hyperlinks

[Adewale Adebusoye]

Hello.. ive got this email application that uses servlets and jsps.
I would like to make it so that when anyone types in a URL address when he's composing a mail, it automatically becomes a live hyperlink in the page, without me having to write <a href.....blah blah> just like when u type either an email address or a URL in either yahoo or gmail.
I originally posted in the servlets forum, but was redirected here. they told me it could be done in java script, but i dont know how. could someone please help me out and include a code example?
Thanks

[Eric Pascarello]

You can only do this with a rich text area control. Any normal textbox/textarea can not do this.

Eric

[Adewale Adebusoye]

please how can i implement what you have said? ive never used that control before.
Thanks

[Eric Pascarello]

What do you think Yahoo or Gmail or Hotmail uses to compose emails. That is a rich text area or a WYSIWYG editor. Search the inernet for code, pretty hard to find a good one that is free.

Eric

[Yuriy Fuksenko]

Look here

[Adewale Adebusoye]

please how can i implement what you have said? ive never used that control before.
Thanks

[Eric Pascarello]

Did you look at the link that Yuriy posted? You got to experiment to be sucessful in life!

Eric