Smart linking of column data

ID Email Url
400 vero-et@sit.com http://www.et.org/
35534 sanctus-elitr@Stet.com http://www.elitr.org/
10111 rebum-sed@erat.com http://www.sed.org/
23041 sed-nonumy@nonumy.com http://www.nonumy.org/
56365 kasd-eirmod@clita.com http://www.eirmod.org/
54327 et-dolor@et.com http://www.dolor.org/
31458 sed-consetetur@tempor.com http://www.consetetur.org/
42184 rebum-sea@duo.com http://www.sea.org/
39124 consetetur-aliquyam@no.com http://www.aliquyam.org/
94833 et-et@gubergren.com http://www.et.org/

If you have email addresses or web URLs in the data that you are displaying in columns of your table, then you can set the autolink="true" attribute in your display:column tag, and that will tell the display:table to automatically display those pieces of data as hyperlinks, you will not have to take any action to convert that data.

  • Email addresses will be wrapped with a <a href="mailto:xxx">xxx</a> tag, where "xxx" is the email address that was detected.
  • Web URLs will be wrapped with a <a href="xxx">xxx</a> tag, where "xxx" is the URL that was detected (it can be any valid URL type, http://, https://, ftp://, etc...)

If your column data has additional text, only the data that appears to be an email address or a URL will be linked (not the entire column).

Turning on autolink does carry a performance penalty, as each string has to be scanned for patterns and updated if it matches on an address or URL.