Regular Expressions 101

\ban ASCII word boundary

Group 1(.*?)

.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

Group 2(|\s)

1st Alternative — matches an empty string

2nd Alternative\s

\sany whitespace character

Group 3(.*?)

.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

;the literal ; (59₁₀ / 73₈ / 3B₁₆)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

Search reference

Regular Expression

\b(.*?):(|\s)(.*?);

New

div {
	color: red;
	background-color: red;
}

<div style='color: red; background-color: black'>



\b(.*?):(|\s)(.*?);