HTML Tag

Matches HTML tags

Live Tester— test the HTML Tag pattern

Pattern/<\/?[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*(?:\s[^>]*)?\/?>/

Test string

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Pattern

<\/?[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*(?:\s[^>]*)?\/?>

Matching examples

<div><img src='x' /></p>

Non-matching examples

< div>text

Breakdown

<\/?: Opening < or </
[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*: Tag name
(?:\s[^>]*)?: Optional attributes
\/?>: Optional /, closing >

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