REGEX delete

[swepub]

Completely new to this.
Is it possible to remove all <div ids and it's corresponding end <\div> like below that has the class "Basic-Text-Frame" using regex?
<div id="_idContainer020" class="Basic-Text-Frame">

[KevinH]

Uses Find and Replace in regex mode, or the TagMechanic plugin for even easier use.

See the Sigil Users Guide for more info.

[retiredbiker]

Originally Posted by swepub

Completely new to this.
Is it possible to remove all <div ids and it's corresponding end <\div> like below that has the class "Basic-Text-Frame" using regex?
<div id="_idContainer020" class="Basic-Text-Frame">

One way to do it: Using regex mode, search for
<div.*?class="Basic-Text-Frame">
and replace with nothing.
Check it out one-at-a-time at first to make sure it is doing what you want, before hitting Replace All.
Then use the Mend and Prettify All HTML files tool to get rid of the </div> tag ends left behind.

Also try the plugin KevinH mentions, and do spend some time with the manual and regex tutorials. Regex is powerful and can easily destroy a book.

[Turtle91]

You can even do it with one regex...ASSUMING you do not have nested <div>s:

find: <div.*?class="Basic-Text-Frame">(.*?)</div>
replace:\1

or TagMechanic

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

You can even do it with one regex...ASSUMING you do not have nested <div>s:

find: <div.*?class="Basic-Text-Frame">(.*?)</div>
replace:\1

or TagMechanic

Personally, I would use TagMechanic since it handles nested divs. The code above would stop on the first </div> rather than the matching </div> which would break nested <div>s. In the example below, a regex search would match on the first </div> bolded rather than the last </div> bolded. And yes, this is from a real ebook produced by Vellum. The only change is replacing the first <div> with the sample from the OP.

  <div id="_idContainer020" class="Basic-Text-Frame"> 
    <div class="heading">
      <div class="heading-contents">
        <div class="title-block">
          <div class="element-number-block">
          </div>
          <div class="title-block">
            <h1 class="title">Chapter 2</h1>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>

[Turtle91]

Yup. That’s why I said “assuming you don’t have nested divs!”

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

Yup. That’s why I said “assuming you don’t have nested divs!”

I noticed that you said that but I wanted to emphasize it!

One of the first ePubs I got to try repairing was one where original editor used regex to make changes to some spans and the (unnecessary in my opinion), nested spans were munged which made the ePub almost unreadable. The original was bad enough before the edit with massive dropcaps which after the edit applied to the entire paragraph.

[swepub]

Thanks a lot for great support.
TagMechanic did the trick...