RegEx to extract URL from CSS background styling

Question

I have a string in this form:

url(\"http://www.example.com/imgs/backgrounds/bg80.jpg\") repeat scroll 10% 0% transparent

This is from a CSS sty

Answer 1

Just capture anything between ( and )

var url = str.match(/\((.*?)\)/)[1].replace(/('|")/g,'');

var image = new Image();
image.src = url;

FIDDLE