Javascript string question

Hello,

I have a string

<p attribute="testAttribute">Some text</p>

I would like to “extract” the attribute value of the paragraph “tag” for further processing. But I don’t know if it’s possible in Javascript to get the value since the content is plain string.

Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks!

If you use jQuery

var str = '<p attribute="testAttribute">Some text</p>';
var my_obj = $(str);
console.info(my_obj.attr('attribute')); // => testAttribute

But don’t use jQuery just to extract the attribute, an alternative is to do it manually (insert the string to the DOM ), and use an identifier for it, but I’m lazy to do that

Or with regex:

var str = '<p attribute="testAttribute">Some text</p>';
alert(str.match(/<p attribute="(\w+)">(.*)<\/p>/)[1]);</p>

I’m no expert in regular expressions, I find it hard to manage it :/. I’ll try the way that omarabid just proposed.

Thanks!