Regex to remove id attributes from HTML

Question

I have an html with a lot of id="something" attributes.

All the html is inside $data var.

Trying to remove all the id="*" from $data:

$data = preg_replace('\<id="[*]"^\>', '', $data);

Doesn't work, whats wrong?

Answer 1

Try this instead:

$data = preg_replace('#\s(id|class)="[^"]+"#', '', $data);

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Answer 2

try the following:

'id="[^"]*"'