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Javascript Regular Expression for finding HTML tags in a string
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find-html-tags-regular-expression.js
const htmlTagRe = /<\/?[^>]+>/gi;
const html = '<span class="error" style="background: none; font-size: 1em;" data-attr=testing123><span disabled class="code">Status text blah blah blah</span> <span class="text">HTTP 500 : Internal Server Error</span></span>';
const plainText = html.replace(htmlTagRe, '');
console.log(plainText); // status text blah blah blah HTTP 500 : Internal Server Error
@JamesNewton
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@pseudosavant Only that I was going to extract the content of the tags letter. Your's is probably the shortest possible.

@otherjoel
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Is there a reason you do [a-z] when those would be included in [^>]?

Ensuring there is a letter right at the start of the opening or closing tag is good; it keeps you from erroneously matching strings like "If 3 < 4 > 2 etc"

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rajahu commented Nov 7, 2021

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/javascript/strip-html-tags-in-javascript/

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