Question

I know that regex usually should not be used for parsing html content. In my special case i need them
(reason is, am using a rte editor and when pasting into the editor some replacement for attributes of paragraphs needs to be done).

I have something like

<p attribute1="val1" attribute2="val2" attribut="val3" ...>text blah blah</p>

and i need all attributes stripped out so that i get

<p>text blah blah</p>

How can this be done using a regex?

A solution to strip out attributes from all possible html tags is appreciated too.

Answer 1

Something like this should work on all tags:

replace(/<\s*(\w+).*?>/, '<$1>')

For paragraphs only, just replace the \w:

replace(/<\s*p.*?>/, '<p>')

The \s* in the beginning allows for whitespace before the tag name, so if you for some reason have < p class="foo">, it works on that too.