autolinks should have a class when converted to html

[ousia]

Autolinks should add a class (such as class="autolink") when converted to html, so it would be possible to format them in a different way than links in standard text.

Here you have a minimal sample (and its output):

<http://www.autolink.com> and [standard link](http://www.link.com)

So it would to be possible to format them in CSS with:

a.autolink  { font-family: monospace; }

If the class isn’t added for autolinks, standard text would be formated to monospace when containing links.

Many thanks for your excellent work.

[jgm]

I agree that this would be helpful. But with the current Pandoc AST, it isn't always obvious when you have an autolink -- autolinks are represented the same way as ordinary links. You'd have to compare an [Inline] to a String, and there might be differences due to URL escaping. Possibly in the future we should have a separate Inline element Autolink.

[jgm]

For now you can probably write a tiny bit of javascript to look for links whose contents match their href attributes and add a class.

[ousia]

Sorry, but I wonder whether the approach to fix #1270 would make sense here.

[jgm]

Hm, maybe it's that simple.

+  let isAutolink = txt == [Str src]

I'll have to check the markdown reader to make sure that's reliable.

[ousia]

@jgm, could the new code (once tested) be included in next release?

[jgm]

I think we can squeeze it in.
+++ Pablo Rodríguez [Aug 12 14 13:34 ]:

[1]@jgm, could the new code (once tested) be included in next release?

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1. https://github.com/jgm
2. autolinks should have a class when converted to html #1501 (comment)

[ousia]

Many thanks for the fix.