Can't get HTML inside tag using regex (match)

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I have this fiddle I'm trying to get the html inside the <app> tag, but can't seem to get it working. How can I fix it? The regex I am using is .match(/<app.*>(.*?)<\/app>/)[1];

why don't you using `.find('app')` so you can search in the parsed form, instead in string content — Koushik Chatterjee, Dec 15 '17 at 10:31
Next time asking a question, please add more details and show what you've already tried or ruled out. — slhck, Dec 15 '17 at 10:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 15 '17 at 10:31

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That's because . matches everything except for newlines, but you want to match everything. Use [\s\S] instead. Check it here: https://jsfiddle.net/vumcgger/

Also, never parse html with regex (unless you really need to): RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

answered Dec 15 '17 at 10:31

Ethan

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Thanks, yeah I'm doing it inside node, having to scrape some content and extract a few things. Thanks that works great. – williamsandonz Dec 15 '17 at 10:39

Can't get HTML inside tag using regex (match)

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