Regular Expression: exclude html tags from “content”

Question

One friend asked me this and as my knowledge on RegExp is not so good yet here I am.

How can exclude the HTML tags from this string?

re<br>na<br>to<br>galvao

I've tried some RegExp but it didn't work as I was expecting.

(.*)<.*>(.*)

But this RegExp gets the first < and the last >.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

this is a quick way to do it:

var content = "re<br>na<br>to<br>galvao";
content = content.replace(/<[^>]*>/g,'');

Answer 2

Match all html tags with this regex:

 <("[^"]*?"|'[^']*?'|[^'">])*>

see demo here: http://regex101.com/r/fA0oT4

Answer 3

You could use a non-greedy match. According to the answer to this question , in javascript it is *?

So, assuming this is the only problem with your regex, it should work with

(.*?)<.*?>(.*?)