Regular Expression - remove all characters inside
tag

Question

I have html code and I want to remove all code inside "pre" tag using regular expression

For example

<pre>lorem ipsum</pre>
<p><strong>lorem ipsum</p>
<pre>lorem ipsum</pre>

and I want to get only

<p><strong>lorem ipsum</p>

I try this:

<pre>.*?</pre>

but it doesn't work

[You shouldn't use regex to parse HTML](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/590747/using-regular-expressions-to-parse-html-why-not) — GrumpyCrouton, Oct 23 '17 at 20:48

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 23 '17 at 21:01

A simple for the fun Javascript cleaner pre :

var pres = document.querySelectorAll('pre');
for(var i in pres){
  pres[i].textContent = "";
}

pre{
 text-align: center;
 background-color: #cccccc;
 border-radius: 8px;
 width:100%;
 height:50px;
}

<pre>lorem ipsum</pre>
<p><strong>lorem ipsum</p>
<pre>lorem ipsum</pre>

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