Regular expression for nested tags (innermost to make it easier)

Question

I researched this quite a bit, but couldn\'t find a working example how to match nested html tags with attributes. I know it is possible to match balanced/neste

Answer 1

You can do it recursively, using the same regex but executed while needed. Like this:

function htmlToPlainText(html) {
    let text = html || ''

    // as there is html nested inside some html attributes, we need a recursive strategy to clean up the html
    while (text !== (text = text.replace(/<[^<>]*>/g, '')));

    return text
  }

This works with cases like:

Lorem Ipsum

I found this script here: http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/reverse-recursive-pattern