9 Regular Expressions to strip HTML tags

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It's not an easy job to parse HTML tags of the whole page using regular expressions. But if you are dealing with a part of HTML tags and handle it as a string, the following regular expressions may be of your help.

1

matches specific tag pairs and content between them

RegEx Expression:

/<\s*h4[^>]*>(.*?)<\s*/\s*h4>/g

Method:

exec, match

Testing String

<h4 class="sds">And more ...</h4>

2

matches all HTML tags pairs including attributes in the tags

RegEx Expression:

/<(.|\n)*?>/g

Method:

match

Testing String

<div class="tab0">CSS code formatter</div><div class="tab2">CSS code compressor</div>

3

match all start tags including attributes in the tags

RegEx Expression:

/<\s*\w.*?>/g

Method:

match

Testing String

<div class="box">5 px radius of round corner</div><div class="box">7 px radius of round corner</div><div style="color:#6699cc">color</div>

4

matches all close tag

RegEx Expression:

/<\s*\/\s*\w\s*.*?>|<\s*br\s*>/g

Method:

match

Testing String

<div class="sds">not sure where it can be used</div></br>

5

matches start tag of specific tag including attibutes

RegEx Expression:

/<\s*div.*?>/g

Method:

match

Testing String

<div class="tab1">tabs generator</div>

6

matches close part of specific tag pair

RegEx Expression:

/<\s*\/\s*div\s*.*?>/g

Method:

match

Testing String

<div class="sds">javascript + CSS ...</div>

7

matches specific HTML tag pair including attributes in the tags.

RegEx Expression:

/<\s*\/?\s*span\s*.*?>/g

Method:

match

Testing String

<span class="csc">Regex examples</span>

8

matches start tag with specific attribute

RegEx Expression:

/<\s*\w*\s*style.*?>/g

Method:

match

Testing String

<div style="color:#6699cc">round corner</div>

9

matches start tag with specific attribute

RegEx Expression:

/<\s*\w*\s*href\s*=\s*"?\s*([\w\s%#\/\.;:_-]*)\s*"?.*?>/g

Method:

exec, match

Testing String

<span ><a href="http://www.pagecolumn.com/"> 3 Column Layout Generator </a></span> <span > <a href="http://www.pagecolumn.com/2_col_generator.htm">2 Column Layout Generator</a></span