Regular expression remove tag after a paragraph with a given class

Question

Is there a way to select all   tags that follow a paragraph with a given class? i.e. This is a paragraph 

There may be other   in the HTML so I cannot use this:

br {display:none;}

and I cannot delete all   tags. If there is a way to select these particular   tags then I can use CSS.

There are about 700 pages and I do not want to go through each of them to make sure if the   is needed or not. I do know that it is not needed following a paragraph with the class of "myclass".

If there is no way to select these tags then I think that I can use BBEdit to do the search and replace using a regular expression. But I don't know how to write the RE that would work.

TIA, Linda

sorry, what has this got to do with regexes? and what is stopping you from using `br.myclass {display:none;}` — tobyodavies, Oct 19 '10 at 23:16
@tobyodavies did you even read the whole question? The regex would be used as a filter to find all the br elements that need to be deleted in the web site code. Additionally, br.myclass would not work as a selector given the example @Linda provided. — Moses, Oct 19 '10 at 23:29
The question said 'select all br tags with a given class', and the example didn't make a lot of sense to me... tho your answer clears it up... and i _still_ don't see what its got to do with regexes — tobyodavies, Oct 19 '10 at 23:32
Couldn't you just use the normal find and replace dialogue to find `
` and replace with ``? EDIT: see my answer - it's not programming, but since you stipulated you're using BBEdit it should help — nearlymonolith, Oct 20 '10 at 00:16

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 19 '10 at 23:24

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p.myClass+br {display:none;}

This will select all   elements that are directly adjacent to a  element. If you need anything more dynamic than that, you will need regex.

answered Oct 19 '10 at 23:24

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 20 '10 at 00:20

Assuming BBEdit is similar to TextWrangler, you could use the built in Find dialogue.

Go to Search > Find... (Command + F), do "Seach For"   and "Replace With"  and then use the "Multi-file search" option at the bottom of the window to choose your files.

This isn't a regex, but since you said you're using BBEdit, which is made by Bare Bones and supposedly shares a lot with TextWrangler, it should work. (Otherwise just download TW for free). It even gives you a nice pop-up telling you what it found and replaced in case you want to review, etc.

See this page for more info on BBEdit's search and other fun features.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 20 '10 at 03:09

Supposing you want to use regex to delete all   tags that follow a paragraph with a class named myclass:

Search for: (<p\b[^><]\sclass\s=\s*["']?myclass["']?[^><]>.?<\/p>\s*)<br\s*/?>

Replace with: $1

Note, you must ensure that all p tags in your HTML documents are properly closed.

Regular expression remove tag after a paragraph with a given class

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