correctly treating html character entities

any html character entities following a url are now not being treated like part of the query string

Author: Vadim Kazakov

dist/Autolinker.js

@@ -160,6 +160,14 @@
 				'>'
 			].join( "" ), 'g' );
 		} )(),
+	
+		/**
+		 * @private
+		 * @property {RegExp} htmlCharacterEntities
+		 *
+		 * The regular expression that matches common HTML character entities.
+		 */
+		htmlCharacterEntities: /( | |<|<|>|>|&|&)/i,
 
 		/**
 		 * @private
@@ -330,7 +338,11 @@
 			    inBetweenTagsText,
 			    lastIndex = 0,
 			    anchorTagStackCount = 0,
-			    resultHtml = [];
+			    resultHtml = [],
+				htmlCharacterEntities = this.htmlCharacterEntities,
+				unescapedText,
+				textToProcess,
+				i;
 
 			while( ( currentResult = htmlRegex.exec( html ) ) !== null ) {
 				var tagText = currentResult[ 0 ],
@@ -339,36 +351,49 @@
 
 				inBetweenTagsText = html.substring( lastIndex, currentResult.index );
 				lastIndex = currentResult.index + tagText.length;
-				
-				// Process around anchor tags, and any inner text / html they may have
-				if( tagName === 'a' ) {
-					if( !isClosingTag ) {  // it's the start <a> tag
-						anchorTagStackCount++;
-						resultHtml.push( this.processTextNode( inBetweenTagsText ) );
-						
-					} else {   // it's the end </a> tag
-						anchorTagStackCount = Math.max( anchorTagStackCount - 1, 0 );  // attempt to handle extraneous </a> tags by making sure the stack count never goes below 0
-						if( anchorTagStackCount === 0 ) {
-							resultHtml.push( inBetweenTagsText );  // We hit the matching </a> tag, simply add all of the text from the start <a> tag to the end </a> tag without linking it
+	
+				//split at html entities
+				unescapedText = inBetweenTagsText.split( htmlCharacterEntities );
+	
+				for ( i = 0; i < unescapedText.length; i++ ) {
+					textToProcess = unescapedText[i];
+	
+					// Process around anchor tags, and any inner text / html they may have
+					if( tagName === 'a' ) {
+						if( !isClosingTag ) {  // its the start <a> tag
+							anchorTagStackCount++;
+							resultHtml.push( this.processTextNode( textToProcess ) );
+	
+						} else {   // its the end </a> tag
+							anchorTagStackCount = Math.max( anchorTagStackCount - 1, 0 );  // attempt to handle extraneous </a> tags by making sure the stack count never goes below 0
+							if( anchorTagStackCount === 0 ) {
+								resultHtml.push( textToProcess );  // We hit the matching </a> tag, simply add all of the text from the start <a> tag to the end </a> tag without linking it
+							}
 						}
+	
+					} else if( anchorTagStackCount === 0 ) {   // not within an anchor tag, link the "in between" text
+						resultHtml.push( this.processTextNode( textToProcess ) );
+	
+					} else {
+						// if we have a tag that is in between anchor tags (ex: <a href="..."><b>google.com</b></a>),
+						// just append the inner text
+						resultHtml.push( textToProcess );
 					}
-					
-				} else if( anchorTagStackCount === 0 ) {   // not within an anchor tag, link the "in between" text
-					resultHtml.push( this.processTextNode( inBetweenTagsText ) );
-					
-				} else {
-					// if we have a tag that is in between anchor tags (ex: <a href="..."><b>google.com</b></a>),
-					// just append the inner text
-					resultHtml.push( inBetweenTagsText );  
 				}
 
 				resultHtml.push( tagText );  // now add the text of the tag itself verbatim
 			}
 
 			// Process any remaining text after the last HTML element. Will process all of the text if there were no HTML elements.
 			if( lastIndex < html.length ) {
-				var processedTextNode = this.processTextNode( html.substring( lastIndex ) );
-				resultHtml.push( processedTextNode );
+				//split at html entities
+				unescapedText = html.substring( lastIndex ).split( htmlCharacterEntities );
+	
+				for ( i = 0; i < unescapedText.length; i++ ) {
+					textToProcess = unescapedText[i];
+					var processedTextNode = this.processTextNode( textToProcess );
+					resultHtml.push( processedTextNode );
+				}
 			}
 
 			return resultHtml.join( "" );