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DiapDealer · 02-20-2012, 05:10 PM

I can usually bang my head against something long enough to figure it out, but I'm giving up and looking for help...

I'm looking for an expression that will locate span tags (of a specific class) that enclose more than one word. Let's just say the span class is "italics".

So I'm looking for an expression that will find:

Code:

<span class="italics">This is three words</span>

or:

Code:

<span class="italics">This is a great big bunch of words, maybe even a whole dang paragraph</span>

but not:

Code:

<span class="italics">one</span>

I know I'm probably missing something obvious and am going to feel like a complete idiot when I see the answer. I don't even really care what, exactly, gets gets highlighted, as I won't be using it to replace anything... only to manually eyeball the occurrence.

02-20-2012, 05:10 PM	#6
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 27,549 Karma: 193191846 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	I can usually bang my head against something long enough to figure it out, but I'm giving up and looking for help... I'm looking for an expression that will locate span tags (of a specific class) that enclose more than one word. Let's just say the span class is "italics". So I'm looking for an expression that will find: Code: <span class="italics">This is three words</span> or: Code: <span class="italics">This is a great big bunch of words, maybe even a whole dang paragraph</span> but not: Code: <span class="italics">one</span> I know I'm probably missing something obvious and am going to feel like a complete idiot when I see the answer. I don't even really care what, exactly, gets gets highlighted, as I won't be using it to replace anything... only to manually eyeball the occurrence.