Create a Javascript RegExp to find opening tags in HTML/php template

Question

I\'m trying to write a Javascript HTML/php parser which would extract all opening tags from a HTML/php source and return the type of tag and attributes with their values whi

Answer 1

Just make sure the last letter before the '>' is not a ?, using [^?]. No lookaheads or -behinds needed.

<[a-zA-Z](.*?[^?])?>

the parentheses and the last ? is to also match tags like <b>.

EDIT The solution didn't work for single character tags without attributes. So here is one that does:

<[a-zA-Z]+(>|.*?[^?]>)

Answer 2

much simpler answer would be <[^/^>]+>