Question

I have an html page that has many elements (tables, divs e.t.c) I get them as string and I want to extract this format <img src="(whatever char).jpg" (whatever char)> from the string, I tried regexp tutorials but couldn’t do anything as it was to complicated to me. And I need only the first occurrence, thanks.

Answer 1

I don’t think regex is the right way to go about this:

var all_images = document.getElementsByTagName('img');
var filtered_images = [];

for (var i = 0; i < all_images.length; i++) {
    var image = all_images[i];

    if (image.hasAttribute('src')) {
        filtered_images.push(image);
    }
}

If you were using jQuery, the code would be much simpler:

var images = $('img[src]');