Are the angle brackets (< or>) special in a regular expression?

Question

I am trying to get a regex expression to accept < and > as my outside delimiters to grab all the content in between them.

so content like such

<         


        

Answer 1

You could be having a problem when you try to insert the result into HTML and the browser thinks that it is not a valid HTML tag, like <blablabla>.

Answer 2

Neither < nor > are metacharacters inside a regular expression.

This works for me:

'<foo> and <bar>'.match(/<[^>]*>/g); // ["<foo>", "<bar>"]