How to get div tag content with regex

Question

i want to get div tag's content. For example:

<div id="gameDetailsInner">
<div id="headerText" style="padding-left: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;">
<h1><a href="http://www.abc.com/games.php?flash=7264">abc text</a></h1>
</div>
<div style="min-height: 90px;">
<a href="http://www.abc.com/games.php?param=12345"><img src="http://abc.abc.com/images/7264.jpg" alt="abc" width="120" height="78" id="gameDetailsInnerImg"/>
</a>
How can i get this text with regex?
</div>

Thanks...

Why do you need regex? Are you trying to parse a static HTML document? If so, what language are you working in? — Mike Brant, Dec 14 '12 at 20:42
Yes I'm trying to parse a static HTML document,I am using c # :\ — Özkan Selek, Dec 14 '12 at 20:44
see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/289440/cannot-get-regular-expression-work-correctly-with-multiline (in C#) — gabriel_agm, Dec 14 '12 at 20:54

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 14 '12 at 20:44

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If you're in PHP, you can use the strip_tags() function to remove all HTML tags from a string.

Anything more than that, you need to use a proper HTML parser. You can't parse HTML with regular expressions. You need to use a proper HTML parser. http://htmlparsing.com lists a number of solutions for different languages.

answered Dec 14 '12 at 20:44

Andy Lester

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@ÖzkanSelek I tagged your question with the c# tag. – Trufa Dec 14 '12 at 20:46

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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Unfortunately, you can't reliably parse HTML using a Regex. Please see this famous question for details: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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answered Dec 14 '12 at 20:49

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 15 '12 at 13:10

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<div.*>([^>]+)</div>

Group1 gives the content of the div if the content is just before the end </div>

answered Dec 15 '12 at 13:10

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How to get div tag content with regex

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