Create clickable links when using html filter

[aseques]

Explain the problem.

When using the -f csv -t html format, the autolink feature doesn't work, and I need to do extra steps to get the urls highlighted in the resulting html

Name,Category,Description,Link
Item 1,Category A,Description of item 1,"https://www.example.com"
Item 2,Category B,Description of item 2,"<https://www.example.com>"
Item 3,Category C,Description of item 3,"[link](https://www.example.com)"

pandoc -f csv -t html test.csv -o test.html

As seen in the browser:

The html code

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Category</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Link</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Item 1</td>
<td>Category A</td>
<td>Description of item 1</td>
<td>https://www.example.com</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Item 2</td>
<td>Category B</td>
<td>Description of item 2</td>
<td>&lt;https://www.example.com&gt;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Item 3</td>
<td>Category C</td>
<td>Description of item 3</td>
<td>[link](https://www.example.com)</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

I'd naively expected that the links would be highlighed, a couple of places where it does work in this way in pandoc

• https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extensions (autolink_bare_uris but not supported in html filter)
• https://pandoc.org/demo/example33/8.16-links-1.html (specific to markdown)

[jgm]

autolink_bare_uris is a markdown extension. And the syntax <http://example.com> is also markdown. With -f csv the text is just interpreted as plain text.

You'd have to use a Lua filter to autolink the URIs in csv -> html.