I am trying to get a regex expression to accept < and > as my outside delimiters to grab all the content in between them.

so content like such

< tfdsfa  >

should be grabbed.

Do I have to escape the < and > characters or something?

Regex generated by my script:

/<[^(>)]*>/g

Code from file:

data.method.highlight = function() {

    var x = data.syntax,

        text = data.$.span.html();

    for (var i=0, len = x.length; i < len; i++) {

        var rx;

        if (x[i].range) {

            rx = new RegExp(x[i].tag[0] + [^( + x[i].tag[1] + )]* + x[i].tag[1], g);

            console.log(rx);

        }

        else {

            var temprx = x[i].tag[0];

            for (var z = 1; z < x[i].tag.length; z++) {

                temprx += | + x[i].tag[z];

            }

            rx = new RegExp(temprx, g);

        }

        text = text.replace(rx,function (match) {

            console.log(looping - range);

            return '<span class=' + x[i].class.default + '>' + match + '</span>';

        });

        data.$.span.html(text);

    }

};