Replacing text in Sigil

[gilmorehp]

Hi, I know there must be an easy way do do this, i want to replace the following

example:

<p class="class_s9h">sample text sample text</p>

replace with

<p class="text"><i class="italic">sample text sample text</i></p>

I want to keep the original text but change the "class"

what do I put in the find/replace field


Thanks in advance!

[Karellen]

Find
<p class="class_s9h">(.*?)</p>

Replace
<p class="text"><i class="italic">\1</i></p>

[gilmorehp]

thanks, but ive tried that in sigil and it wont work. =(

[gilmorehp]

Originally Posted by Karellen

Find
<p class="class_s9h">(.*?)</p>

Replace
<p class="text"><i class="italic">\1</i></p>

Thanks! didnt work in sigil but works in calibre.

[Karellen]

I thought Sigil used the same flavour of Regex. Maybe a wrong setting in Sigil?

[JSWolf]

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Originally Posted by gilmorehp

Hi, I know there must be an easy way do do this, i want to replace the following

example:

<p class="class_s9h">sample text sample text</p>

replace with

<p class="text"><i class="italic">sample text sample text</i></p>

I want to keep the original text but change the "class"

what do I put in the find/replace field


Thanks in advance!

A very simple thing you can do is use the TagMechanic plugin. You can easily change classes and you could put italic in the CSS. It's really simple with this plugin. I use the calibre version a lot.

font-style: italic;

Just a quick note, don't do <i class="italic"> that's overdoing it. All you need is <i>.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by Karellen

I thought Sigil used the same flavour of Regex. Maybe a wrong setting in Sigil?

Must not be using the regex search mode. Otherwise, your expression would have worked. There's no difference in how Sigil and Calibre's S&R expressions are parsed.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

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Just a quick note, don't do <i class="italic"> that's overdoing it. All you need is <i>.

How do you know what setting the CSS has in .italic{ } ?

For full paragraphs, I usually give those their own class that has a:

 font-style: italic;

.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by theducks

How do you know what setting the CSS has in .italic{ } ?

For full paragraphs, I usually give those their own class that has a:

 font-style: italic;

.

I've never seen an <i class="italic"> that in the CSS is nothing but font-style: italic;.

[KevinH]

Yes, if that search did not work, then the user did not set the search to regex mode. Just tried a similar regex in Sigil and it works like a charm.