Remove Empty Html Attributes in C# using Regex

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I have some html like the below:

<img src="/web/20110208042711im_/http://coralifeaqualight.com/wp-content/themes/xtheme/images/coralife-aqualight-pro.png" alt="">

What I want to be able to do is use regex to clear any html attributes that have no value, in this case: alt="". I cannot figure out how to look for any string that with a space and contains ="" as that would do it for me, does anyone know

http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/113586 – wRAR Feb 07 '13 at 22:18 — wRAR, Feb 07 '13 at 22:18

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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Parsing HTML with Regex is generally considered a bad idea as there is too many edge cases. Read for yourself. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/11/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way.html

A favored solution is HTML Agility Pack

Also see this Stackoverflow question about the usage of Regex for HTML: here

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answered Feb 07 '13 at 22:42

The Muffin Man

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 07 '13 at 22:31

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I'm no regex genius, but I believe String.Replace("\s\w+=\"\"", String.Empty) would do it, if you've got that whole tag in a string.

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