Hi,

 I was looking for a regex which would strip all HTML and included text except what is included in <h3>,<h4> and <h5> tags.

I am planning to use this regex in javascript. 

 
example:

 
Input:

<ul>
      <li><h4>Sub Menu</h4>
          <ul>
              <li><a href="http://regexadvice.com/forums/AddPost.aspx?ForumID=68#">Sub-Sub Menu</a></li>
              <li><a href="http://regexadvice.com/forums/AddPost.aspx?ForumID=68#">Sub-Sub Menu</a></li>
              <li><a href="http://regexadvice.com/forums/AddPost.aspx?ForumID=68#">Sub-Sub Menu</a></li>
              
              <li><h5>Sub-Sub Menu</h5>
                  <ul>
                      <li><a href="http://regexadvice.com/forums/AddPost.aspx?ForumID=68#">Sub-Sub-Sub Menu</a></li>
                      <li><a href="http://regexadvice.com/forums/AddPost.aspx?ForumID=68#">Sub-Sub-Sub Menu</a></li>
                      <li><a href="http://regexadvice.com/forums/AddPost.aspx?ForumID=68#">Sub-Sub-Sub Menu</a></li>
                  </ul>
                </li>
          </ul>
      </li>
    </ul>

Output: <h4>Sub Menu</h4><h5>Sub-Sub Menu</h5>

Please help 

- Pritesh
 

Do you also need to strip HTML tags and their contents which are included within the heading tags?

If not, you could use something like this:

var newString = oldString.match(/<(h[345])\b[^>]*>[\S\s]*?<\/\1>/gi).join("").replace(/<\/?h[345]\b[^>]*>/gi, "");

However, due to the nature of HTML, this task would probably be better accomplished using the DOM.

I need the heading tags and the text included within them in the output, rest everything will be stripped as I mentioned in the example.
 

That doesn't explicitly clarify anything.

In any case, try what I just posted. If you need help with implementing a DOM-based solution (which would be preferable anyway in this case), you can probably find better support for that elsewhere. 

Sorry for not being clear. I think this example would help.

 Input: <div><p>Some text</p><h3><a href ="#">link text here</a></h3></div>

 Output: