Regex scenarios to Match Nested HTML Tags in JavaScript - Need guide with Recursive Patterns
I tried several approaches but none seem to work. I've been banging my head against this for hours. I'm stuck on something that should probably be simple. I'm working on a project where I need to extract content from nested HTML tags, such as `<div><span>Text</span></div>`. I've tried using a regex pattern to match these nested structures, but I'm running into issues with correctly matching multiple levels of nesting. My current regex looks like this: ```javascript const regex = /<div>(.*?)<\/div>/g; const input = '<div><span>Text</span></div>'; const matches = input.match(regex); console.log(matches); ``` This only captures the outer `<div>` tags but fails to include the content inside. Additionally, when I try to account for the inner tags by modifying the regex to something like `/<div>(.*?)<span>(.*?)<\/span><\/div>/g`, it still doesn't work for cases where there are varying tag types or multiple nested elements. I understand that regex isn't the best tool for parsing HTML, but I need a quick solution for this specific case. I'm using Node.js version 14.x and have checked that my regex is being processed correctly, but I'm still getting unexpected results. Any suggestions for modifying my regex or alternative approaches to handle this adequately? I would appreciate any insights on best practices for regex in this context as well. My development environment is Ubuntu. What am I doing wrong? I'd really appreciate any guidance on this. For context: I'm using Javascript on Ubuntu. Thanks in advance!