Question

In pure javascript (not using JQuery/dojo/etc), what is the best/easiest/quickest way to split a string, such as

var tempString = '<span id="35287845" class="smallIcon" title="time clock" style="color:blue;font-size:14px;" contenteditable="false">cookie</span>';

into

var id = 'id="35287845"';
var class = 'class="smallIcon"';
var title = 'title="time clock"';
var style = 'style="color:blue;font-size:14px;"';
var contenteditable = 'contenteditable="false"';

Things to note:

• a “space” cannot be used as a proper delimiter, since it may appear in a value, such as title, above (time clock).

• maintaining the double quotes around each variable, such as id=”35287845″ is important

• the opening/closing span tags can be discarded, as well as the content, which in this case, is “cookie”

Answer 1

Here is one approach, which is to place the input string as innerhtml into a javascript created dom element and then leverage the attributes array

//Input html string
var tempString = '<span id="35287845" class="smallIcon" title="time clock" style="color:blue;font-size:14px;" contenteditable="false">cookie</span>';

//make element to contain html string
var tempDiv = document.createElement("div");

//place html string as innerhtml to temp element
tempDiv.innerHTML = tempString;

//leverage attributes array on element
var attributeArray = tempDiv.firstChild.attributes;

//log results
console.log(attributeArray);

Note that you may now do something like

var classString = attributeArray.class;

or

var titleString = attributeArray.title;

Edit

Here is a function that will do it:

function getAttributesFromString(htmlString)
{
 var tempDiv = document.createElement("div");
 tempDiv.innerHTML = htmlString;
 return tempDiv.firstChild.attributes;
}