I want to replace <whatever>Some Title</whatever> with <something>Some Title</something> using the Find and Replace tool inside of Dreamweaver. How do I perform?
Not a Dreamweaver user, but this simple approach works in my editor (Emacs):
Replace:
<whatever>\(.*\)</whatever>
With:
<something>\1</something>
This is a pretty straightforward approach but it may fall short of your needs. Do some or all of your <whatever> element pairs occupy more than one line of text? Or do you have more than one <whatever> pair on a single line?
i guess what you want is to change all your <whatever> tag with an <something> tag whitout changing your text, right?
If it is so, you want to use find and replace with regular expression. Find (in source code) <whatever>(.*)</whatever> and replace it with <something>$1</something>. The $1 is used as a variable for anything fits the (.*) part DW finds for each instance.
For example, you you want to comment all instances of an
document.NAMEOFANYFORMONTHEPAGE.WHATEVERNAME.focus();
in a JavaScript file, you would use find:
document\.(.*)\.focus\(\);
and replace it with:
// document.$1.focus();
Don't forget to escape special characters and, please, try a few instances before using Replace All
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I need to replace some html file names in my html file with anchor tags, such that:
abc.html
file.html
becomes:
abc.html
file.html
I have though of the following regex in find: [a-z-0-9]+\.html and it seems to work, but I don't know what to add in replace. I have tried some answers from here , but they did not work. Can you please help?
You need to use capturing groups, that then you can refer back to in the replace box..
Capture groups are created adding parenthesis to find: ([a-z-0-9]+\.html)
Then replace would be: $1
$1 means the first capture group.
I would like to replace opening and closing tag, leaving the content of tags and its attribute intact.
Here is what I have:
<div class="QText">Text to be kept</div>
to be replaced with
<span class="QText">Text to be kept</span>
I tried this expression which finds all expressions I want but there seems to be no way to replace found expressions.
<div class="QText">(.*?)</div>
Thanks in advance.
I think #AmitJoki's answer will work well enough in certain circumstances, but if you only want to replace div elements when they have an attribute or a specific set of attributes, then you would want to use a regex replacement with backreferences - how you specify and refer to a backreference, unfortunately, depends upon your chosen editor. Visual Studio has the most unique and annoying "flavor" of regex I know of, while Dreamweaver has a fairly typical implementation (both as well as I imagine whatever editor you're using do regex replacement - you just have to know the menu item or keystroke to bring up the dialog).
If memory serves, Dreamweaver has replacement options when you hit Ctrl+F, while you have to hit Ctrl+H, so try those.
Once you get a "Find" and "Replace" box, you would put something like what you have in your last example above: <div class="QText">(.*?)</div> or perhaps <div class="(QText|RText|SText)">(.*?)</div> into your "Find" box, then put something like <span class="QText">\1</span> or <span class="\1">\2</span> in the "Replacement" box. A few utilities might use $1 to refer to a backreference rather than \1, but you'll have to lookup help or experiment to be sure.
If you are using a language to run this expression, you need to tell us which language.
If you are using a specific editor to run this expression, you need to tell us which editor.
...and never forget the prevailing wisdom on regex and HTML
Just replace div.
var s="<div class='QText'>Text to be kept</div>";
alert(s.replace(/div/g,"span"));
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/9sgvP/
Mark it as answer if it helps ;)
Posted as requested
If its going to be literal like that, capture what's to be kept, then replace the rest,
Find: <div( class="QText">.*?</)div>
Replace: <span$1span>
I am making a small online database that is accessible through the form of checkboxes for download. I was wondering if there was some way to list all of the filenames available for download in Sublime Text 2 and insert the same code around each filename?
Everything is functional, it would just save me a lot of repetitive copy and pasting if there is a faster way to do this.
Use SublimeText Find & Replace. Click the Regex button (it looks like a * to the left of the search box)
In the Find box, insert: (^.*$)
In the replace box: [yourcode]$1[yourcode]
Where [yourcode] is what you want to insert into the box.
So, if you want to make them all <li> then your replace box would be:
<li>$1</li>
Remember to use escape \ characters where they are needed, in case you need to insert restricted characters.
^ - beginning of a new line.
. - wildcard
* - any number of the previous character in the sequence (in this case a wildcard, so any text)
$ - the end of a line
() - denotes a block, it's how the $1 knows what text to put in it's place.
Sublime Text Search and Replace
Use search/replace on a text editor with regular expressions.
^ and $ represent the beginning and end of a line - thus allowing you to easily surround each line with the appropriate text.
Sometimes you can copy the newline character (as in copy the end of one line to the beginning of the next line), and replace that with whatever text you need.
You could always use the regular expression search / replace feature in Notepad++.
I'm using TextMate to edit a project that I'm doing(HTML files) and I have some <div> tags assigned with the class=navigation property, but I need to change this <div>'s for a new design that I'm planning, but they are much(about 47 results if I search for class=navigation).
So I need a regular expression to match the entire line that this property is found, but which is it?
I'm not a regex expert, but I would think that ^.*class=navigation.*$ would work.
I have a big html file (87000+ lines) and want to delete all occurrences of onclick from all elements. Two examples of what I want to catch are:
1. onclick="fnSelectNode('name2',2, true);"
2. onclick="fnExpandNode('img3','node3','/include/format_DB.asp?Index2=3');"
The problem is that both function names and parameters passed to them are not the same. So I need a Regular expression that matches onclick= + anything + );"
And I need one that works in Notepad++
Thanks for helping ;-)
Not familiar with notepad++, but what I use in vim is:
onclick="[^"]+"
Of course this depends on there being double quotes around the onclick in every case...
This regular expression will fail if you have a " or ' character included within quotes escaped by a \. Other than that, this should do it.
(onclick="[^"]+")|(onclick='[^"]+')
onclick="[^"]+" works for me, for that 2 strings.
If you want to go with a regex:
/onclick=".*?"/
You could also use something which is DOM-aware, such as a HTML/XML parser, or even just load up jQuery:
$("[onclick]").removeAttr("onclick");
... and then copy the body HTML into a new file.
Could
onclick=\".+;\"
Work?
onclick=\".*\);\"
This regex should do the trick.
(\s+onclick=(?:"[^"]+")|(?:'[^']+'))
Open your file on dreamweaver, choose edit from the toolbar, select find and replace,
put onclick="[^"]+" in find field and keep replace blank
this will do the whole thing.
Enjoy