InDesign GREP Help Two...

[JonathanJacqu28834810rfuu]

Hello again,

Is there a way in a paragraph style (via GREP?) to insert a character style to any text that receives a hyperlink?

Thanks in advance.

J.

[Peter Kahrel · Accepted solution]

You don't need any Grep. When you create a hyperlink you can set a character style in the interface: 

And when you create a hyperlink in a script, you can apply a character style when you create the hyperlink source.

[JonathanJacqu28834810rfuu]

Right, maybe I should rephrase then, sorry. I have paragraphs that contain many links, some in-page hyperlinks, some external url hyperlinks. Is there a way to apply a character style automatically depending on what type ofhyperlink it is?

[Peter Kahrel · Accepted solution]

> Is there a way to apply a character style automatically depending on what type of hyperlink it is?

You'd need a script for that. Which type of hyperink do you want the character style applied to?

[Barb Binder]

Hi @JonathanJacqu28834810rfuu:

InDesign can do that for you without GREP as you add your URLs.

~Barb

[Barb Binder]

LOL Peter: you beat me by 7 seconds! 😂

[Peter Kahrel]

If you want to apply the character style to all link sources that are not page items, it's easy:

cstyle = app.documents[0].characterStyles.item ('myStyle');
sources = app.documents[0].hyperlinkTextSources.everyItem().getElements();
for (i = sources.length-1; i >= 0; i--) {
  s[i].appliedCharacterStyle = cstyle;
}

because it targets all hyperlink text sources. But if it should be restricted to e.g. URL sources, it gets more complicated.