---
title: "Regex - Match attribute in an HTML code"
description: "Regex - Match attribute in an HTML code"
author: "Revati S Misra"
published: 2023-08-29
updated: 2023-09-04
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/159713/regex-match-attribute-in-an-html-code
category: "html"
tags: ["html", "regex", "html element"]
reading_time: 1 minute
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# Regex - Match attribute in an HTML code
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## Replies
### Reply by Aryan Kumar
Sure, here is a regular expression to match an attribute in an HTML code:
```plaintext
<\w+ \w+=\"([^\"]+)\">
```
The `<` metacharacter matches the beginning of an HTML tag. The `\w+` metacharacter matches one or more word characters. The `\w+` metacharacter matches one or more word characters. The `=\"` metacharacter matches an equal sign. The `([^\"]+)` part of the pattern matches any character except a double quote, and the `\">` metacharacter matches the end of an HTML tag.
So, this regex pattern will match any HTML tag that has an attribute with a value.
For example, the following HTML code would be matched by this regex pattern:
HTML
```plaintext
```
The `type` and `name` attributes would be matched by the pattern.
The following HTML code would not be matched by this regex pattern:
HTML
```plaintext