Question

i have a tag with some veriable content inside. i would like to be able to remove that tag and all its contents using a javascript srt.replace().

i would usually use something like jQuery('.tag-class').remove() but jQuery isn’t an option in this case.

i believe a regular expression is what i am looking for but after poking around for quite some time, i am no closer than when i started.

i need to do this.

var myContent = 'bla bla bla <div class="remove-me">variable content here</div> something something';
// run some cool replace() here and get
// bla bla bla  something something

any suggestions would be great!

Answer 1

var myContent = 'bla bla bla <div class="remove-me">variable content here</div> something something';
myContent = myContent.replace(/<div[\s\w"\=-]*class="remove-me"[\s\w"\=-]*>[\s\w]*<\/div>/g, "");
alert(myContent);

https://jsfiddle.net/umL1tswn/