Check if an element is closed using a discrete tag with JavaScript

Question

I am getting the child nodes of en element and i want to check if the tags can actually contain text. For example:

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Answer 1

Could use RegEx:

// these are samples, get elements text using element.innerHTML;
var one = "Links";
var two = "Lorem ipsum dolor";

function check(str){
    return str.match(/<[a-zA-Z]+.*>(.|\n)*<\/[a-zA-Z]+>/) ? true : false;
}

console.log(check(one)); // true
console.log(check(two)); // false