Regex to remove empty tags HTML except images

Question

I have a regex to remove empty tags HTML, like <p></p> or <span></span> , but inside them I can have images and I want to ignore the tag <img> . My regex:

(<(?!\/)[^>]+>)+(<\/[^>]+>)+

My uses cases:

I want to ignore the last line, because I have an image inside the tag.

Check the live editor: https://regex101.com/r/81M8VR/1

Answer 1

The following seems to work:

(<(?!\/)((?!img)[^>])+>)+(<\/[^>]+>)+

https://regex101.com/r/A0N1rL/1