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 = `2008-08-20 Li Xiang, Li Xiang came over to play Ping Pong with me. We had coffee and pastries as well. Diane Harriford, who Li was rooming with got us together to play Ping Pong. He was at Vassar studying Samual Johnson with Robert DiMaria. We played a few times at Vassar as well. Li brought me a good luck hanging ornament for my car and a silk scarf for Cathy. He returned home to Beijing a week after this visit.`; document.write(linkifyHtml(str, options)); ]]>