Replace URLs with links via JS

linkReplace.js

/**
 * Replace URLs with hyperlinks in an element
 *
 * @param  {string} selector
 * @return {void}
 */
var linkReplace = function(selector) {
    var element = document.querySelector(selector);
    var text = element.innerHTML;
    text = text.replace(/(https?:\/\/|www\.)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{2,256}\.[a-z]{2,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)/g, function(match) {
        var result = '<a href="';
        if (match.substr(0, 4) != 'http') {
            result += 'http://';
        }
        result += match + '" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">' + match + '</a>';
        return result;
    });
    element.innerHTML = text;
};