Regex expression not returning entire term

The intention of the regex is to capture substrings wrapped between twin expressions in parentheses, kinda like html tags. For example:

<p id="textTwo">And this shall be (blue)the ocean(blue) and this shall also be like (blue)the ocean(blue)</p>

And here’s my code

let color = 'blue';
let getColor = 
    new RegExp(`(${color})(.*)(${color})`);
let coloredText = textTwo.match(getColor);

let text = document.getElementById('text').innerText;
let textTwo = document.getElementById('text2').innerText;

let color = 'blue';
let getColor = 
    new RegExp(`(${color})(.*)(${color})`);
let coloredText = textTwo.match(getColor);
// italicsText.forEach((string, index) => {
//   string.replace("(i)", "<i>");
//   console.log(typeof(string));
// });
// text.replace(italics, "<i>");

let italics = text.replace(/((.*?))/g, (_, match) => `<${match}>`);
console.log(italics);


console.log(italics);
console.log(coloredText);

<p id="text">Hello there (i)Good Sir(i). How can I help you (i)today(i)</p>

<p id="text2">And this shall be (blue)ao!(blue) and this shall also be (blue)like the ocean(blue)</p>

Can anyone tell me why this doesn’t capture the entire thing?

Answer

The characters () are special in a regexp and must be escaped with a if you want to match them literally. And because in a JavaScript string literal is also special, it needs to be escaped with another :

    let color = 'blue';
    let getColor = 
        new RegExp(`\(${color}\)(.*)\(${color}\)`);