Hi,
I have several thousand pages created in NOF 7.


The code is a mess and I want to remove the CLASS, SPAN ect which exist for each bit of text.


Anyone know how this can be done automaticallly. A sample of the problem is below.


Note, I intend to have one global CSS file which sets all font to the same.
Sample below -



</select><input type="submit" value="Buy"name="submit"></div></form> </SPAN>
</B></P><P STYLE="text-align: center;"><B><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-serif,sans-serif; color: rgb(255,0,0);"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(255,255,255);"></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 12pt;"></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;"><SPAN STYLE="color: rgb(204,0,255);">_________________________________ _________________________</SPAN></SPAN></B></P><P STYLE="text-align: center;"><B><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small; color: rgb(204,0,255);"></SPAN></B>&nbsp;</P></TD><TD></TD>
</TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH=791 NOF=LY><TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT><TD WIDTH=43 HEIGHT=9></TD><TD WIDTH=748></TD></TR><TR VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT><TD></TD><TD WIDTH=748 CLASS="TextObject" STYLE="background-color: rgb(0,0,0); background-image: none; border-left-style: none; padding-top: 5pt; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; padding-bottom: 5pt; border-bottom-style: none;"><P STYLE="text-align: justify; border-left-style: none;
border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none;"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 NOF=TE><TR><TD ALIGN="CENTER"><TABLE WIDTH=748 BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 NOF=TE><TR><TD CLASS="TextObject" STYLE="border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none;"><P STYLE="text-align: justify; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none;"><IMG
ID="Line2" HEIGHT=2 WIDTH=748 SRC="../../a_ArrowLine.gif" VSPACE=0 HSPACE=0 ALIGN="TOP" BORDER=0 ALT="">&nbsp;</P><P STYLE="text-align: justify; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none;">&copy&nbsp;<I><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium; color: rgb(255,255,255);"><A HREF="http://www.m-99.co.uk/"><B><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small; color: rgb(255,255,254);">M99</SPAN></B></A> <SPAN STYLE="font-size: x-small;">1999-2006&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <SPAN
STYLE="font-size: xx-small; color: rgb(255,255,1);">Unit A3, Enterprise Park, Brunel Drive, Newark, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. NG24 2DZ </SPAN> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

serveral thousand pages? phew..... going to have your work cut out for ya........

best thing I can think of is search the web for "multiple file find and replace" you'll need something that allows regular expressions though and then go from there..

sorry if this post seems very vague but it's a start for you......

10227 pages to be precise.

I just did an autoreplace of 1 short tag, took 23 minutes.

And I rekon their are several hundred slightly different auto replaces to do.

O dear.

A regular expression for removing style, class & id attributes in one pass

class="[^"]*["]|id="[^"]*["]|style="[^"]*["]

one for removing <span> & </span>

<span>|<span( [^>]*)[>]|<(/)span>

Note: Neither of these will remove a matching line completely if the line is split with a CR (as can happen with HTML)
EG:
<span style="blah">Some text</span> will become Some Text

but
<span style=
"blah">Some text</span> will become "blah">Some Text

You might want to look at HTML Tidy, it has the capability to clean up code and you can set your preferences.

Dreamweaver has a search and replace with regular expressions and you can tell it to do it site-wide.

I think the suggestion by LadynRed would suit you best -- using DreamWeaver (or something of the like) to do a sitewide find and replace.