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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can't parse every html opening tag with regex, because a html opening tag doesn't have a set structure. How would you match, with regex, this opening tag? <mytag myattribute="<value of \"myattribute\">" >

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Is this valid HTML? My understanding is that that attribute value needs to be escaped, i.e. &lt;value of \&quot;myattribute\&quot;&gt;.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

The quote must not be escaped when you start with a single quote. The rest doesn't. This is valid and tested: <img alt='my "<img>"'>