RegEx to return 'href' attribute of 'link' tags only?

Question

Im trying to craft a regex that only returns <link> tag hrefs

Why does this regex return all hrefs including <a hrefs?

(?<=<link\s+.*?)href\s*=\s*[\'\"][^\'\"]+

<link rel="stylesheet" rev="stylesheet" href="idlecore-tidied.css?T_2_5_0_228" media="screen">
<a href="anotherurl">Slash Boxes&lt;/a>

Answer 1

Either

/(?<=<link\b[^<>]*?)\bhref=\s*=\s*(?:"[^"]*"|'[^']'|\S+)/

or

/<link\b[^<>]*?\b(href=\s*=\s*(?:"[^"]*"|'[^']'|\S+))/

The main difference is [^<>]*? instead of .*?. This is because you don't want it to continue the search into other tags.