David Nash

When upgrading a website you might see source code like this:

<span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">Some text goes here</span>

You’re using CSS now and all those <span> tags are ruining it. In gvim, do this search and substitute:

%s/<span.\{-}>//g

Then to get rid of the </span> tags, do this:

:%s/<\/span>//g

Tags: convert, gvim, xhtml

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