how will you get all the matching tags in a html file?

To get all the matching tags in an HTML file, you can use JavaScript methods like:

1. Using document.getElementsByTagName(tagName):

   • Returns a live HTMLCollection of all elements with the specified tag name.

   • If you use "*" as the tag name, it returns all elements in the document.

   • Example to get all <p> tags:

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     const paragraphs = document.getElementsByTagName("p");
     

   • Example to get all tags:

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     const allElements = document.getElementsByTagName("*");
     

2. Using document.querySelectorAll(selector):

   • Returns a static NodeList of all elements matching the specified CSS selector.

   • You can specify tag names, attributes, class names, etc.

   • Example to get all <a> tags with a certain href pattern:

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     const links = document.querySelectorAll("a[href*='example.com/app']");
     

3. Using a parser library like BeautifulSoup in Python can extract all tags from an HTML file by parsing the file and traversing or searching for tags.

For a simple approach in JavaScript, using getElementsByTagName("*") is the most straightforward way to get all matching tags in an HTML document.

If the task is to extract all tags from raw HTML text, you could parse it into a DOM and then use these methods, or use regex carefully (not recommended for complex HTML).