I want <br /><br />
to turn into <br />
What's the pattern for this with regex?
Note: The <br />
tags can occur more than 2 times in a row.
$html = preg_replace('#(<br */?>\s*)+#i', '<br />', $html);
This will catch any combination of <br>
, <br/>
, or <br />
with any amount or type of whitespace between them and replace them with a single <br />
.
You could use s/(<br \/>)+/<br \/>/
, but if you are trying to use regex on HTML you are likely doing something wrong.
Edit: A slightly more robust pattern you could use if you have mixed breaks:
/(<br\ ?\/?>)+/
This will catch <br/>
and <br>
as well, which might be useful in certain cases.
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