Remove everything between tag Regex

Question

I m trying to remove everything inside any html tag:

input:

<a class="yoyo"> <h1 id="test"> hello </h1> </a>

weird example but well

output:

<a><h1>hello</h1></a>

I ve tried /(<\w)(?:.*)(>)/gmi but its not working...

If you have any clue on that . Thanks

So to explain it more after your comment I scrapped a website and I have a .txt file that i wanna clean. It will contain the whole html of a page and i want to clean every single html tag and remove the spaces aswell. So everything between any <* and > should be removed.

Can you elaborate? you can have a million html tags inside html tags, what do you want to do exactly? — James, Jul 06 '17 at 15:40
does the regex have to change "hello" into "salut" and remove spaces too? Just kidding for the hello, but i am serious for the spaces.. — Kaddath, Jul 06 '17 at 15:41
Why don't you use JS utilities (which are built particularly well for parsing and manipulating markup) rather than use regular expression ([terrible choice for parsing HTML](https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/1612146)) — George, Jul 06 '17 at 15:42
are you working with a string or actual html? If the second, it would be a better approach to just remove the attributes with `element.removeAttribute(attrName);` — Kaddath, Jul 06 '17 at 15:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 06 '17 at 16:03

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How about the following regex:

<[^>]*>

You will have to concatenate all the matches.

answered Jul 06 '17 at 16:03

Uri Y

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Tell me if i m wrong but it seems that your regex remove every thing between the tag. Like for example hello becomes or i want to remove everything inside the tags so hello becomes – kikiwie Jul 06 '17 at 16:06
I get it. How about this: (<\/?\w+)[^>]*(>) You will have to concatenate the match groups in this one. – Uri Y Jul 06 '17 at 16:19

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 06 '17 at 16:09

Do this using DOM methods. Loop over all elements, iterate the attributes and remove them

let cont = document.getElementById('demo-container'),
  els = cont.querySelectorAll('*');

[].slice.call(els).forEach(el => {
  [].slice.call(el.attributes).forEach(attr => {
    el.removeAttribute(attr.name);
  })
});

console.log(cont.innerHTML)

<div id="demo-container">
  <a class="yoyo">
    <h1 id="test"> hello </h1>
  </a>
</div>

Remove everything between tag Regex

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