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Challenge 70: HTML Attribute Extractor

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--description--

Given a string of a valid HTML element, return the attributes of the element using the following criteria:

  • You will only be given one element.
  • Attributes will be in the format: attribute="value".
  • Return an array of strings with each attribute property and value, separated by a comma, in this format: ["attribute1, value1", "attribute2, value2"].
  • Return attributes in the order they are given.
  • If no attributes are found, return an empty array.

--hints--

extractAttributes('<span class="red"></span>') should return ["class, red"].

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assert.deepEqual(extractAttributes('<span class="red"></span>'), ["class, red"]);

extractAttributes('<meta charset="UTF-8" />') should return ["charset, UTF-8"].

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assert.deepEqual(extractAttributes('<meta charset="UTF-8" />'), ["charset, UTF-8"]);

extractAttributes("<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</p>") should return [].

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assert.deepEqual(extractAttributes("<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</p>"), []);

extractAttributes('<input name="email" type="email" required="true" />') should return ["name, email", "type, email", "required, true"].

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assert.deepEqual(extractAttributes('<input name="email" type="email" required="true" />'), ["name, email", "type, email", "required, true"]);

extractAttributes('<button id="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>') should return ["id, submit", "class, btn btn-primary"].

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assert.deepEqual(extractAttributes('<button id="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>'), ["id, submit", "class, btn btn-primary"]);

--seed--

--seed-contents--

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function extractAttributes(element) {

  return element;
}

--solutions--

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function extractAttributes(element) {
  const regex = /(\w[\w-]*)="([^"]*)"/g;
  const result = [];
  let match;

  while ((match = regex.exec(element)) !== null) {
    const attr = match[1];
    const val = match[2];
    result.push(`${attr}, ${val}`);
  }

  return result;
}