Regular expression to match tags containing certain data

Question

I need help to make a reg exp. to match these: The goal is to match any html tag that only <br/> or/and spaces.

<p><br/></p>
<h1><br/></h1>
<p><br/><br/></p>
<span><br/><br/></span>
<b><br/>   <br/>    </b>
<h2><br/>   <br/>    </h2>

Answer 1

Try:

preg_match_all('#<([\S]+)[^>]*>(\s*|(<br\s*/>)*)*</\\1>#i', $html, $m);

If you want to strip elements that contain only comments as well as whitespace/ <br/> , that's going to be a pain, maybe even impossible, using regex alone.