I want to remove starting and trailing br and nbsp tags from a string using java or javascript.

Input and desired output are hosted in jsfiddle because Stackoverflow is not letting me to post html content.

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I want to remove starting and trailing br and nbsp tags from a string using java or javascript.

Input and desired output are hosted in jsfiddle because Stackoverflow is not letting me to post html content.

http://jsfiddle/HwDf9/

• java
• javascript
• regex
• trim

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Something like this?

request.replace(/^\&nbsp\;|<br?\>*/gi, "").replace(/\&nbsp\;|<br?\>$/gi, "").trim();