Search html text with html tag

Question

I am trying to search some text which can search with or without html tag. Have tried with (?!([^<]+)?>) which is working with content which is outside of html tag.

Regex - (simple html)(?!([^<]+)?>)

Html - This is simple html text simple html text simple html

but the content in simple html is not working.

Please note i am avoiding class='simple'.

[You shouldn't parse HTML with regex.](https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/3660134) — Zenoo, Feb 05 '18 at 10:11
Regex is not the right tool for this... please share the sample inputs and outputs. — gurvinder372, Feb 05 '18 at 10:12
@gurvinder372 can be checked in https://regex101.com/r/cD8nG4/145 — santanu, Feb 05 '18 at 10:15
@santanu Can you share the sample inputs and expected outputs? — gurvinder372, Feb 05 '18 at 12:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 05 '18 at 13:20

Using: /<\/?.*?>/g and replace, you can strip out all HTML tags, and simply search through the remaining text.

let regex = /<\/?.*?>/g,
  html = `This is simple html text <span class='simple'>simple html</span> text simple <p>html</p>`,
  string = html.replace(regex, "");

console.log(`Stripped HTML: ${string}`)

let find = "simple html",
  found = string.search(find);

console.log(`\n$ String "${find}" found at char ${found}`)

Search html text with html tag

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