[banana_giraffe]

The Zalgo response drives me slightly crazy.

Most of the time I've actually seen people asking about regex's and HTML are asking for a very small subset of both, they generally just want to parse a bunch of pages generated by a small number of tools, and yet they get told it's impossible to use Regex to do it.

The second answer is spot on, actually answers the question, yet the first one is the one that gets treated as gospel.