ng-pattern for avoiding html tags in angular js

[Priti_P]

Hello,

Am new in angularjs. I want to restrict user from inserting HTML tags in textarea by using ng-pattern

in blade.php, i had written {{ Form::textarea('localAddress', null, ['size' => '35x4',"ng-pattern"=>'(.*?)<.*?>(.*?)','name'=>'local_address','ng-model' => 'employee.employee_personal_details.local_address','required'=>true]) }}}

but < brackets are giving me angular js error

{{ Form::textarea('localAddress', null, ['size' => '35x4',"ng-pattern"=>'<("[^"]*?"|'[^']*?'|[^'">])*>','name'=>'local_address','ng-model' => 'employee.employee_personal_details.local_address','required'=>true]) }}}

and above is (obviously) making syntax error.
how can I do this in angularjs?

AFAIK < and > have a meaning in regex, so it may need to be escaped for a literal match.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21063742/greater-than-and-less-than-symbol-in-regular-expressions