Extract string between start string and end string using javascript

Question

Consider the following snippet of code:

<div align="Left">
<font style='font-size:17pt; font-family:Times New Roman;color:#000000;'>
<textformat tabstops="[20]" leftmargin="0">Hi all</textformat>
</font>
</div>

I want to extract string between "font-size" and "pt" i.e it should out me a decimal "17" using javascript.
Can this can be achieved using regular expression.

Thanks in advance,
Amit

Lekensteyn · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-31 07:39:37Z

2

Yes.

var pt = string.match(/font-size:([\d.])+pt/)[1];

What do you want to do with that?

answered Aug 31, 2010 at 7:39

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philonous · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-23 12:37:19Z

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In the case you just want to get the font size of the respective element I would recommend not relying on parsing the string but rather access this property by using the DOM – as for example something like:

document.getElementsByTagName('font')[0].style.fontSize

answered Oct 23, 2010 at 12:37

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