Question

Trying to get a regex that I can get a style attribute value from the example below should explain my issue.

source: font-size:11pt;font-color:red;text-align:left;

want to say give me ..

1. font-size and returns 11pt
2. font-colour and returns red
3. text-align and returns left

Can someone point me in the right direction

Thanks

Lee

Answer 1

Logically you’d want:

[exact phrase] + 1 colon + 0 or more white space characters + 0 or more characters up to the first semicolon or closing quote.

I think this will get you headed in the right direction:

font-size[:][\s]*[^;'"]*

Gotchas:

• the closing quote might be single or double and there may be a valid quote within (ie, quoting background image urls, for instance)

• this is all dependent on the styles not being written in shorthand