Question

I have a block of HTML stored in a variable called address_form, within that block of HTML I want to remove, or replace, a portion of it. The part I want to replace is a div with an ID of address_container.

There’s clearly something wrong with my RegEx here that i’m using with the replace function as it is not working:

var tempStr = address_form.replace('/\<div id=\"#address_container\"\>.*<\/div\>/', '');

I simply want to replace a string, within a string.

Answer 1

From @RidgeRunner

Correctly matching a DIV element, (which itself may contain other DIV
elements), using a single JavaScript regex is impossible. This is
because the js regex engine does not support matching nested
structures.