Remove </div> HTML tag from a string in PHP

Question

According to the post here, the code below can remove the HTML tag, such as <div>. But I found that the end tag </div> still remain in the string.

$content = "<div id=\"header\">this is something with an <img src=\"test.png\"/> in it.</div>";
$content = preg_replace("/<div[^>]+\>/i", "", $content); 
echo $content;

I have tried something below, but still not work, how can I fix this issue?

$content = preg_replace("/<\/div[^>]+\>/i", "", $content); 
$content = preg_replace("/<(/)div[^>]+\>/i", "", $content); 

Thanks

Answer 1

The end tag doesn't have anything between the div and the >, so instead try something like:

$content = preg_replace("/<\/?div[^>]*\>/i", "", $content); 

This will remove patterns of the form:

<div>
</div>
<div class=...>

Answer 2

change it to "/<[\/]*div[^>]*>/i"