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I have a string in my Javascript application which looks like this 

 var myMessage = 'Thats the first line<br /> thats the second line<br /> thats the third line.';

Now I have tried to replace all <br /> with \n and I have tried this command: 

var messageFormatted = myMessage.replace('<br />', ' ');

but in messageFormatted there are still the <br />s. My question now would be what I am doing wrong?

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  • Is there any other HTML in the text that needs to stay? Commented Aug 25, 2016 at 22:14
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    To perform a global search and replace, include the g switch in the regular expression. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/… Commented Aug 25, 2016 at 22:14
  • var messageFormatted = myMessage.replace(/<br \/>/g, '\n'); Commented Aug 25, 2016 at 22:15
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    it's tricky because often this is not really a place for "regex" or "regex-like" patterns. usually one would be advised to parse the html and then remove the br elements. Commented Aug 25, 2016 at 22:19
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