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Extraction
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Regex to Extract HTML Tags
Useful when you need quick tag-level extraction for diagnostics, not full HTML parsing. It matches opening and closing tags with their attributes.
Regex
/<\/?[A-Za-z][^>]*>/gTry this pattern
Matches current input
<div class="note">
1 match found in the current text.
Passing examples
- <div class="note">
- </section>
Failing examples
- plain text only
- 2 < 5
Code examples
JavaScript
const regex = /<\/?[A-Za-z][^>]*>/g;
regex.test(input);Python
import re
pattern = re.compile(r"<\/?[A-Za-z][^>]*>")
bool(pattern.search(input))Go
re := regexp.MustCompile("<\\/?[A-Za-z][^>]*>")
matched := re.MatchString(input)