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Answer 1

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how about something like:

/(<script>)(.*)(<\/script>)/\1\2/gi

jskaggz 2009-09-13 19:57:59

This won't work if the script tag has an attributes.

jimyi 2009-09-13 20:17:38

Hi jskaggz thanks for the reply - the script gives me an error with the 1 and 2

Gerald Ferreira 2009-09-13 20:18:00

Answer 2

A:

replace(/<script[^>]*>.*?<\/script>/igs, '');

You missed a dot ;)

Benjamin Ortuzar 2009-09-13 20:39:15

Answer 3

+1 A:

Does this work?

replace(/<\s*script[^>]*>[\s\S]*?<\s*\/script>/ig, '')

Tim Pietzcker 2009-09-13 20:40:23

Answer 4

+2 A:

I notice a couple of things in addition to the missing dot pointed out by Benjamin Ortuzar.

In your original regex, "/< script.*?>*?< \/script>/ig", there are spaces included after the opening angle brackets; whitespace is significant in regexes, so you'll probably need to remove those.

Also, you'll also need to add the s modifier to activate "single-line mode", which means that newline characters will be matched by dot.

So we end up with:

/<script.*?>.*?<\/script>/igs

Nick Higgs 2009-09-13 20:43:13

Answer 5

+1 A:

This problem has many side effects and is not easy to solve. You must remove the whole text between the <script> tags, even the lines that contains some like this

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"><!--
document.write("<script>function f(){var a=new Array(10000);f();}();</script>")
//--></script>

Also, you must consider that removing the scripting could broke the webpage, so you must replace every event handler hooked to HTML elements, e.g.

<BODY onload="return f();">
...
<img src="asdf.gif" onmouseover="return f();">
...
<a href="javascript:void(f());">

Rodrigo 2009-09-13 21:08:21

Answer 6

A:

(?<startTag><\s*script[^>]*>)(?<content>[\s\S]*?)(?<endTag><\s*/script[^>]*>)

This will allow you to not find the script tags, but also return them as named groups so for example:

<p> some text and maybe an image <img src="http://pathtoimage/image.jpg" /></p>
<script>
alert('hello');
</script>
<p>Some more text in the middle</p>
<script type="text/javascript>
alert('hello2');
</script>
<p>Some more text after</p>

will return 2 matches with 3 groupings in each match:

Match 1

<script>
alert('hello');
</script>

Match 2

<script type="text/javascript>
alert('hello2');
</script>

Hope this helps.

jimplode 2010-09-23 08:12:47

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