Question

Im trying to replace html tags that are between pre tags. This is what I want it to do:

$str = '<pre><div>Get<p>rid</p> of html tags</div></pre>';
$str = preg_replace('#(<pre.*?>)/<[^<>]+>/(</pre>)#', '$1$2', $str);
echo $str;

It should responed with, “Get rid of html tags” in pre tags

I know for a fact that,

$str = preg_replace('#(<pre.*?>).*?(</pre>)#', '$1$2', $str);

works, but responds with empty pre tags.

I just need to remove all html tags in between the pre tags.

Answer 1

Here’s how I’d do it:

$str = preg_replace_callback("#(<pre[^>]*>).*?</pre>#is",function($m) {
    return $m[1].strip_tags($m[0])."</pre>";
},$str);