HTML tag
What this is
You cannot parse HTML with regex. This pattern is for stripping simple tags from trusted snippets, not for sanitizing untrusted HTML (use a sanitizer).
/<\/?[A-Za-z][^>]*>/g<div class="x">hi</div> <!-- comments break naive patterns -->
FAQ
- script tags?
- A regex will miss javascript: and broken tags. Do not use this for XSS defense.