Question

I have used Regex to extract the content inside square brackets :-

string.match(/[^[\]]+(?=])/g)

but this does not extract the string between square brackets such as

string= “[Description of project (only for)]”

also what will be the regex to remove the html elements inside the square brackets

example :-

string="[<span>Description of project (only for)</span>]"

output after apllying regex should be “Description of project(only for)”

Answer 1

1. Match all content in square brackets.

2. Use a callback function to replace html tags in this matched content.

DEMO : http://jsfiddle.net/uZRQt/

var matches = "This is <span>Outside content </span> and inside is [<span>Description of project (only for)</span>]".replace(/\[.*?\]/gi,function(match) {

    return match.replace(/<\/?[^>]*?>/gi,'');

});

alert(matches);