Regex to remove id attributes from HTML

Question

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

All html is inside $datavar.

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

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

Doesn't work, what's wrong?

Answer 1

Try this instead:

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

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Answer 2

try the following:

'id="[^"]*"'

Answer 3

$data = preg_replace('#<id=".*?"/>#', '', $data); 

Answer 4

$data = preg_replace('/(<([^>]*))(id=("[^"]*"|[^" >]*))/', '$1', $data); 

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