var options = { attributes: { rel: 'nofollow', title: 'click to open', }, className: '', format: { url: function (value) { return value } }, ignoreTags: ['a'], validate: { url: function (value) { return value; } } }; var str = `Myron's brother Richard is quite ill and is in a nursing home in Brooklyn. Eileen and Myron came in from Las Vegas to visit with him. I went down to Brooklyn to see them and Richard. My uncle Newton and Aunt Florence and Eileen's old friend Iris all live nearby. They had lunch with us at the Diner that my parents went to often when they lived in Brooklyn. After lunch, everyone went across the street to visit Richard. I took Iris home on my way home.`; document.write(linkifyHtml(str, options)); ]]>