HTML Tag Regex Pattern

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Pattern Breakdown

Code Examples

const regex = /<\/?[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*\b[^>]*>/g;
const test = "<div class="test">";
console.log(regex.test(test)); // true

// Extract matches
const matches = test.match(regex);
console.log(matches);

import re

pattern = r'<\/?[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*\b[^>]*>'
test = "<div class="test">"
match = re.findall(pattern, test)
print(match)  # Found!

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "regexp"
)

func main() {
    re := regexp.MustCompile(`<\/?[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*\b[^>]*>`)
    fmt.Println(re.MatchString("<div class="test">")) // true
}

Common Use Cases

Match Examples

About the HTML Tag Regex

Matches opening and closing HTML tags with optional attributes. Useful for HTML manipulation and content extraction.

Regular expressions (regex) are powerful pattern matching tools used across virtually all programming languages. The html tag pattern is classified as intermediate difficulty in the text & strings category. It works in all major programming languages.

When using this regex, always consider edge cases and test thoroughly with real-world data. Use the interactive tester above to validate the pattern against your specific inputs before deploying to production.

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