Regex select string between any html tag

Question

I need to be able to get all content between any html tag. Currently I am using:

var result = data.match(/<p>(.*?)<\/p>/g).map(function(val){
 // validate
}

The closest I have got is: <[a-z1-9]{1,10}>(.*?)<\/[a-z1-9]{1,10}>

However looking at a regex tester, it is not correct.

It's not closing on matching tags and is even missing some out, what am I missing?

My aim is to get anything between all tags not between a certain two.

https://regex101.com/r/jR7wZ3/1

Maybe [DOM approach is safer](https://jsfiddle.net/uncysdv4/1/)? — Wiktor Stribiżew, Mar 17 '16 at 14:07
Possible duplicate of [Extract an HTML tag name from a string](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28975162/extract-an-html-tag-name-from-a-string) — Jeff, Mar 17 '16 at 14:13

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 17 '16 at 22:18

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Thanks to @WiktorStribiżew

var el = document.createElement( 'faketag' );
el.innerHTML = txt;
var arr = [];
[].forEach.call(el.childNodes, function(v,i,a) {
        arr.push(v.innerHTML);
});
console.log(arr);

https://jsfiddle.net/uncysdv4/1/

answered Mar 17 '16 at 22:18

Eli Stone

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