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Asked: 2026-05-27T13:55:19+00:00

<html> <head><title>Example page</title></head> <body> <textarea name=description>This is some text</textarea> <input type=’text’ name=’bla’ value=’a textinput’

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<html>
<head><title>Example page</title></head>
<body>
<textarea name="description">This is some text</textarea>
<input type='text' name='bla' value='a textinput' />
<textarea name="interests">What i like to do</textarea>
</body>
</html>

The above html code is the value of a variable. I want to grab all the textareas and replace them by something. What would be the way to get following array from the string:

1: <textarea name="description">This is some text</textarea>
2: <textarea name="interests">What i like to do</textarea>
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  1. Editorial Team
    1. Use DOMDocument->loadHTML() to load the HTML as a DOM tree,
    2. Find the textarea elements (and their text nodes)
    3. Replace with relevant element.

    Cf. Robust, Mature HTML Parser for PHP

    In essence: avoid regular expressions for this kind of tasks. If you insist (and the HTML is guaranteed to be as simple as indicated), try:

    preg_replace('/<textarea name="([^"]+)">([^<]+)<\/textarea>/', '<input type="text" name="\\1" value="\\2">', $yourHtmlString);

    (demo)

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