Remove empty tags using RegEx

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You have “not spaces” as your character class, which means “<i>italic</i></p>” will match. The first half of your regex will match “<(i>italic</i)>” and the second half “</(p)>“. (I’ve used brackets to show what each [\S]+ matches.)

Change this:

/<[\S]+><\/[\S]+>/

To this:

/<[^/>][^>]*><\/[^>]+>/

Overall you should really be using a proper HTML processor, but if you’re munging HTML soup this should suffice 🙂

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