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Asked: 2026-05-16T23:53:48+00:00

how to match html a tags, only the ones without http, using regular expression?

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how to match html “a” tags, only the ones without http, using regular expression?

ie match:

blahblah... < a href=\"somthing\" > ...blahblah

but not

blahblah... < a href=\"http://someting\" > ...blahblah
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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s more easy to use a DOMParser and XPath, not a regex.

    See my response in jsfiddle.

    HTML

    <body>
    <div>
        <a href='index.php'>1. index</a>
        <a href='http://www.bar.com'>2. bar</a>
        <a href='http://www.foo.com'>3. foo</a>        
        <a href='hello.php'>4. hello</a>        
    </div>
</body>

    JS

    $(document).ready(function() {
    var type = XPathResult.ANY_TYPE;
    var page = $("body").html();
    var doc = DOMParser().parseFromString(page, "text/xml");
    var xpath = "//a[not(starts-with(@href,'http://'))]";
    var result = doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, type, null);

    var node = result.iterateNext();
    while (node) {
        console.log(node); // returns links 1 and 4
        node  = result.iterateNext();        
    }

});

    NOTES

    1. I’m using jquery to have a small code, but you can do it without jquery.
    2. This code must be adapted to work with ie (I’ve tested in firefox).
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