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Regexp doesn't work when used in class attribute

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Reproduce the reported comparison using the HTML snippets in the issue and inspect the HTML differ entry point that processes class attributes and regular expressions. Done means the regular expression works in a class attribute while preserving the other classes shown in the example.

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Description

bug

I have the following:

    <div class="popup popup popup_theme_ffffff other-classes">

and tried

    <div class="{{(popup\s)?}} popup popup_theme_ffffff other-classes">

but it looks like it does not work at all.

How to make it works?

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JavaScript
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