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RegEx for matching between any two HTML tags

I have the following content :

<div class="TEST-TEXT">hi</span>
<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEST-TEXT\">first young CEO's TEST-TEXT</a>
<span class="test">hello</span>

I am trying to match the TEST-TEXT string to replace it is value but only when it is a text and not within an attribute value.

I have checked the concepts of look-ahead and look-behind in Regex but the current issue with that is that it needs to use a fixed width for the match here is a link regex-match-all-characters-between-two-html-tags that show case a very similar case but with an exception that there is a span with a class to create a match also checked the link regex-match-attribute-in-a-html-code

here are two regular expressions I am trying with :

  1. \"([^"]*)\"
  2. (?s)(?<=<([^{]*)>)(.+?)(?=</.>)

both are not working for me try using [https://regex101.com/r/ApbUEW/2]

I expect it to match only the string when it is a text current behavior it matches both cases

Edit : I want the text to be dynamic and not specific to TEST-TEXT

Solution

  • A RegEx for that a string between any two HTML tags

    (?![^<>]*>)(TEST\-TEXT)