regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

<textarea idthe literal text <textarea id (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^>]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

Group 1([^\n]*)

Negated Character Class[^\n]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

Global pattern flags

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

25 tokens

Regular Expression

<textarea id[^>]*>\n([^\n]*)

New

<div class="form-item form-type-textarea form-item-answer2">
<div class="form-textarea-wrapper resizable"><textarea id="edit-answer2" name="answer2" cols="60" rows="5" class="form-textarea">
this is some text
</textarea>
</div>
</div>

Extraction

<div class="form-item form-type-textarea form-item-answer2">
<div class="form-textarea-wrapper resizable"><textarea id="edit-answer2" name="answer2" cols="60" rows="5" class="form-textarea">
this is some text
</textarea>
</div>
</div>