Reg expression to remove empty Tags (any of them)?

Question

I like to remove any empty html tag which is empty or containing spaces.

something like to get:

$string = \"text&         


        

Answer 1

You will need to run the code multiple times in order to do this only with regular expressions.

the regex that does this is:

/<(?:(\w+)(?: [^>]*)?`> *<\/$1>)|(?:<\w+(?: [^>]*)?\/>)/g

But for example on your string you have to run it at least twice. Once it will remove the
and the second time will remove the remaining

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