Remove special characters in string with Regexp-jQuery

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Who can help me with regular expression? I need to remove a part of a string with jQuery, but I don't have much experience in regex.

<div class="test" >
    &nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;Test Text
</div>

I want to remove  >  >  and to leave just the text.

See my edit to your previous question. stackoverflow.com/questions/2374579/jquery-string-find/2374759. Submitting a new question which is basically a reframing of your previous problem is redundant. You should edit and continue to follow your first post. — ghoppe
– ghoppe, Commented Mar 3, 2010 at 22:24

theraccoonbear · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-03 22:19:26Z

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$('.test').html($('.test').html().replace(/&[^;]+;/g, ''))

answered Mar 3, 2010 at 22:19

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AlexC Over a year ago

it is adding \n\n\n at the end

ghoppe Over a year ago

I answered this in your previous question. .text().replace(/(^\s+|\s+$|(.*)>\s*)/g,"")

theraccoonbear Over a year ago

Color me skeptical, but is the code you're testing against identical to what you have in your question? This code can't even introduce new characters, it only replaces matches with empty strings.

theraccoonbear Over a year ago

if @ghoppe is right, it sounds like you already had the line breaks there.

ghoppe Over a year ago

@theraccoonbear The line breaks follow the text before the ending </div> tag. Your regex doesn't take that into account. So Alex used poor phrasing. It's not adding anything. It's just not removing what he wants removed. :)

SLaks · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-03 22:37:29Z

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Like this:

$('.test').html(function(i, old) { return old.replace(/&(nbsp|gt);/g, ''); });

EDIT: Demo

edited Mar 3, 2010 at 22:37

answered Mar 3, 2010 at 20:59

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