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Originally Posted by Starson17
1) You should be doing a credit_tag.replaceWith(p) instead of span.replaceWith(p)
2) It's not sufficient to just replace your found credit_tag (the span tags) with your new Tag p. You created p from whole cloth. It has no contents, so when you did the replaceWith (or tried to) you lost everything inside the span. A Tag object is the entire tag, from <span> to </span> or <p> to </p>, with all content therebetween. Don't expect it to do a search and replace of the text string "span" with the text "p."
If you want that, similar code is often used to regex replace all <table>, <tr> and <td> with <div>. I believe that code is posted here and used in lots of (older) recipes. It's basically what linearize_tables does. Let me know if you need me to find and post it. |
I'll look for it and see what I come up with. Thanks for the reply. It a least gives me an idea of what i'm doing wrong and where to go. I think I have learned a lot for you and others but there is still so much to learn which even though frustrating at times is fun all the same because i like the challenge.
again thanks