I'm trying to get rid of empty paragraphs using replace with a regex, but not having luck.

return text.replace('/(<p><\/p>)+/g', '');

I've tested the regex /(<p><\/p>)+/g in regex101 and it seems to be ok. What am I doing wrong?

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I'm trying to get rid of empty paragraphs using replace with a regex, but not having luck.

return text.replace('/(<p><\/p>)+/g', '');

I've tested the regex /(<p><\/p>)+/g in regex101 and it seems to be ok. What am I doing wrong?

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• regex

Share Improve this question Follow asked Mar 30, 2016 at 15:42 AlvaroAlvaro 41.6k3131 gold badges172172 silver badges348348 bronze badges 3

• 1 You'd be better off finding p elements with empty textContent and removing them. – ssube Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 15:43
• you don't need quotes ', or the + – JKirchartz Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 15:45
• Possible duplicate of RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags – Maytham Fahmi Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 15:47

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You should remove the quotes:

return text.replace(/(<p><\/p>)+/g, '');

Almost there ... but a regex in JS isn't a string

Your's

return text.replace('/(<p><\/p>)+/g', '');

Try this

return text.replace(/(<p><\/p>)+/g, '');