[thelist] Detecting HTML tags with Regular Expressions.

[Denis, David]

seems to me this'll match: '<(\w+)>' and '<\/(\w+)>'
but it won't ensure they are valid html tags which you seem to require.  The
only way for that is to actually compare against every possible html tag.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnny Lam [mailto:jlam at popcast.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 9:24 PM
> To: List (E-mail)
> Subject: [thelist] Detecting HTML tags with Regular Expressions.
> 
> 
> I'd like to know what is the actual Regular Expression 
> pattern that would
> match any html tags using Javascript. For example any html 
> code between the
> "<" and ">" or "</" and ">" characters. I'm trying to do a 
> form validation
> in which it will match any user's input, which can include 
> html tags, and
> compare it with another list of valid html tags they can use. 
> Any help would
> be great. Thanks.
> 
> Thank You! 
> Johnny 
> 
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