nested spans (or divs) are problematic to replace/remove with REGEX (unless I have been missing a trick

) in that they must match the correct Closing Tag, not the first occurrence of
a closing tag.
BTW a simple
What If I took it out test.
/* just comment out the selector in the style sheet */
and see what gets ugly

you can always remove the comment marks.
Unlike CSS errors, undefined styles do not seem to cause problems with ADE on my PEz