URL input validation?

If you know the regex pattern to validate ‘http://www.’ please share it. I put up a post a while back asking if anybody knew it with no responses.

As I had no responses I decided the best way was to make sure my input had the ‘http://www.’ to begin with, so I used a plugin by @AliFarahat that is pretty useful, although there are some issues with the way it works in practice and I haven’t had any luck with the plugin developer shedding light onto the issues.

At this stage, the best thing in my mind was to ignore the poor user experience caused by the plugin and use it anyway and hope for the best on getting some feedback on how to resolve the problems.

After reading your post, I think if you know how to use the regex or a way to prepend the link it would be better.

This I don’t know. You may need to share a link to the editor or some screen shots to get more help on that.