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So I know the following regex pattern will remove all empty html tags that just contain letters and numbers like &nbsp;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;abc&gt;&lt;/abc&gt; &lt;123&gt;&lt;/123&gt;<br />
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&lt;(\w+)&gt;(\s|&amp;nbsp;)*&lt;/\1&gt;<br />
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What I would like to do is also remove html tags that have special characters (specifically a colon) that come from applications like MS Office. &nbsp;So remove tags that are in the form of &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;
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So I know the following regex pattern will remove all empty html tags that just contain letters and numbers like  <div></div> <p></p> <abc></abc> <123></123>

<(\w+)>(\s|&nbsp;)*</\1>

What I would like to do is also remove html tags that have special characters (specifically a colon) that come from applications like MS Office.  So remove tags that are in the form of <o:p></o:p>

Regex: how to remove all empty html tags (including tags which contain colons)

So I know the following regex pattern will remove all empty html tags that just contain letters and numbers like  &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;abc&gt;&lt;/abc&gt; &lt;123&gt;&lt;/123&gt;

&lt;(\w+)&gt;(\s|&amp;nbsp;)*&lt;/\1&gt;

What I would like to do is also remove html tags that have special characters (specifically a colon) that come from applications like MS Office.  So remove tags that are in the form of &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;

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