Web Development

tag the regular expression is:
<\S[^><]*[^p\s]>
The problem with the expression is it strips out all the tag except

but needs a space if there is any attributes inside.

It works fine for <p attributes="asdf" >

but doesnot work for
<p attributes="asfd">

What may be the problem.

Further i need to add
tag as well so that the regular expression strips out all the html tag but not

and



Thanks in advance

function submitForm(form, messageDiv, action)
{
	var targetDiv = document.getElementById(messageDiv);
	var inputs = document.forms[form].getElementsByTagName("input");
	var selects = document.forms[form].getElementsByTagName("select");
	var fieldName = document.getElementsByTagName("label");	
	var length = selects.length + inputs.length;
	
	var data = new Array();
	
	for(i=0; i < length; i++)
	{			
		if (inputs[i]) 
		{
			if (inputs[i].value == "")
			{
				targetDiv.innerHTML = inputs[i].name+" is missing";
				var error = 1;
				return;						
			}
			else
			{
				var error = 0;
				var field = inputs[i].name;
			        var value = inputs[i].value;
			        data[field] = value;				
			}
			
		}	
		
		if (selects[i])
		{
			if (selects[i].value == "")
			{
				targetDiv.innerHTML = selects[i].name+" is missing";
				var error = 1;
				return;
			}
			else
			{
				var error = 0;
				var field = selects[i].name;
				var value = selects[i].value;
                                data[field] = value;
			}	
			
		}
	}	
		if (error == 0)
		{
			targetDiv.innerHTML = "";
			saveForm(form, messageDiv, data);
		}				
	
}

I've managed to half do this by using a numerical value for the key but I really need to have the form field name as the key so that I can associate the form field with the data when I pass it to the php script.  Having said that when I use numeric keys on the second half is completed (the selects) becuause the inputs are all over written because the array key isnt incremented until the next iteration of the for loop.

I would really apprciate some guidance on this, Im kinda new to JavaScript!!

Cheers y'all

Bryant May