Trouble removing span class

[mufc]

This is in my recipe
remove_tags = [dict(name='span', attrs={'class':'articledate'})]

Below is the relevant piece of html of one of the pages. Why does this not remove the dates ?
Thanks

Spoiler:

<ul class="calibrefeedlist"><li id="article_0" class="calibrerescale1">
<a href="article_0/index_u15.html" class="article">Almond Shortbread</a><span class="articledate"> [Sat, 04 Dec 11:12]</span>
</li>
<li id="article_1" class="calibrerescale1">
<a href="article_1/index_u31.html" class="article">Heart Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies</a><span class="articledate"> [Sat, 04 Dec 11:12]</span>
</li>
<li id="article_2" class="calibrerescale1">
<a href="article_2/index_u12.html" class="article">Oven-Baked Chocolate Chip Cookies</a><span class="articledate"> [Thu, 02 Dec 11:12]</span>
</li>
<li id="article_3" class="calibrerescale1">
<a href="article_3/index_u35.html" class="article">cookies 4</a><span class="articledate"> [Thu, 02 Dec 11:12]</span>
</li>
<li id="article_4" class="calibrerescale1">
<a href="article_4/index_u28.html" class="article">cookies 5</a><span class="articledate"> [Thu, 02 Dec 11:12]</span>
</li>
</ul>

[kovidgoyal]

Because remove_tags does not apply to calibre generated content

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by mufc

This is in my recipe
remove_tags = [dict(name='span', attrs={'class':'articledate'})]

Below is the relevant piece of html of one of the pages. Why does this not remove the dates ?

<ul class="calibrefeedlist">

You have quoted and are looking at the output html, but remove_tags operates on the input html. They can be significantly different. You have to match the html of the input.

[mufc]

Thanks
Sometimes something as obvious as that sometimes needs another eye