JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<div id="bar">
</div>

JavaScript

var inputText = "<p>foo</p><p>bar</p>";
splittedSelection = inputText.split("/<p>|<\/p>/g");
document.getElementById("bar").innerHTML += "0: " + splittedSelection[0] + "\n";
document.getElementById("bar").innerHTML += "1: " + splittedSelection[1] + "\n";