Clean html code with regex and javascript

Question

How can I "clean away" all but the word dog from the html code below using Javascript and perhaps regex? The id will vary.

<div class="tag" id="11">dog</div>

You don't want to use regexp. Instead you want to parse HTML using DOM routines and then manipulate the DOM tree. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags — Mikko Ohtamaa, Feb 01 '12 at 18:07

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 01 '12 at 18:05

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although its very bad idea to parse html via js , but if you want then try this

<.*>(.*)<\/.*>

answered Feb 01 '12 at 18:05

xkeshav

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 01 '12 at 18:18

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ids should not begin with a digit.

<div class="tag" id="d11">dog</div>

var who= document.getElementById('d11');
alert(who.textContent || who.innerText || '');

answered Feb 01 '12 at 18:18

kennebec

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 30 '12 at 02:07

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If it's always going to be class=tag, then a bit of jquery can help with this:

$('.tag').html()

If it's in a string already

var s = '<div class="tag" id="11">dog</div>';
$(s,'.tag').html()

edited May 30 '12 at 02:07

dplante

answered Feb 01 '12 at 18:08

Ben

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