First at all sory if my english is not the best. We have a problem in our web when a user writes a long url. The structure of the web becomes ugly... First, we tried to solve this poblem with CSS. We implemented something like that: msgforo .p { overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word; } but it wasn''t the solution for our problem because some words at the end of the line repeat it in the next one. Something like that: ------------------------------------------------------- someone can help me with my doubt? ------------------------------------------------------- becomes to: ------------------------------------------------------- someone can help me with with my doubt? ------------------------------------------------------ We are thinking to solve this problem using regular expressions,we want to detect the urls and turn these into a links. With this regular expression: (\b(https?|ftp|file)\S+|\b(www?|ftp|file)\S+) I can detect the urls (Is checked in www.rubular.com great page to test our expressions). But i have a big problem, I only want to turn into a link the urls what there isn''t into <a href="www..." and <img source="www". These kind of urls must stay with no changes. Somebody can help me? I don''t know how create a distinction between the two kinds of urls. Thank a lot -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.