RegEx to extract text between a HTML tag

Question

I\'m looking a regular expression which must extract text between HTML tag of different types.

For ex:

Span 1 - O/p:

Answer 1

This should suit your needs:

<([a-zA-Z]+).*?>(.*?)</\\1>

The first group contains the tag name, the second one the value inbetween.

Answer 2

A very specific way:

(<span>|<a href="#">|<div onclick="callMe\(\)">)(.*)(</span>|</a>|</div>)

but yeah, this will only work for those 3 examples. You'll need to use an HTML parser.

Answer 3

Your comment shows that you have neglected to escape the backslashes in your regex string.

And if you want to match lowercase letters add a-z to the character classes or use Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE (or add (?i) to the beginning of the regex)

"<([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*)\\b[^>]*>(.*?)</\\1>"

If the tag contents may contain newlines, then use Pattern.DOTALL or add (?s) to the beginning of the regex to turn on dotall/singleline mode.