s&r for paired tags

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Hopefully it will be exhumed and incorporated into .../calibre/plugins/Modify ePub Help.htm

BR

Well, I've been using the remove empty span and unpretty features and they work very well.

[AlanHK]

Originally Posted by AlanHK

I've got a book file full of code like :

<p class="calibre2"><span class="none2">blah blah blah</span></p>

Is there a way I can remove these spans, (the "none2" ones) to get

<p class="calibre2">blah blah blah</p>

without messing up any other spans?

I can remove the opening by simple s&r, but then I would have orphaned </span>, but could not just delete </span> without screwing up other spans.

Well as others have mentioned, solved this now.

1) Neuter the unwanted spans (convert to <span>) in Sigil or calibre code editor

2) Run it through the calibre plugin "Modify ePub"
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=154371
applying "HTML/Strip spans", which removes that and other null tags.

Originally Posted by "Modify ePub help"

Strip spans
Removes empty formatting elements (ie. <i/> or <b></b>) and SPAN elements that have no attributes.

This also converts empty container elements into self-closing elements (ie. <br></br> becomes <br/>).

[DiapDealer]

You could also try my editor plugin. It allows you to easily remove attributeless elements, as well as being able to do the same thing based on different attribute criteria. In addition to being able to remove them, you can also modify them--as little as tweaking their attribute strings, to as much as changing them to other tags.

Not that I'm trying to steal Modify Epub's thunder, or anything. If it works for you ... go with it.

[AlanHK]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

You could also try my editor plugin.

Happy to try and use any tools

Where is it?

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by AlanHK

Happy to try and use any tools

Where is it?

Yeah. That kind of info probably would've been helpful, huh?

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