I'm converting very old HTML files (we're talking pre-CSS here) for
re-publication. These files date back to 1997.

Is there some sort of wildcard search expression I can use to strip hundreds
of web pages of old HTML font tags (so I can then apply new CSS values to
those pages manually)?

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 08:43:34 -0400, "mjs" <no@thanks.com> wrote:

>I'm converting very old HTML files (we're talking pre-CSS here) for
>re-publication. These files date back to 1997.
>
>Is there some sort of wildcard search expression I can use to strip hundreds
>of web pages of old HTML font tags (so I can then apply new CSS values to
>those pages manually)?
>

back up the whole site first

Find & replace

search: Specific tag | font


maybe do it to one page first
Find in: Current document

then if it worked ok

Find in: entire current local site
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~Malcolm~*...
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</?font[^>]*>

and put a checkmark in RegExp

The advantage to using this instead of the choice to strip <font> tags is
that the above RegExp will remove anything that matches, the strip font tag
choice will only remove properly nested and paired font tags which isn't
always the case in old legacy files.
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Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver

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