How to keep only desired texts "Before and After" in Notepadd + ? Remove all other texts

Question

I have some HTML files. How can I remove all texts before and after class="header" or id="header" attribute. I want to extract all classes like it. For eg:

**These are my HTML codes:**

<div class="row">
<div class="header">
<div class="navigation">
<div class="container">
<div class="footer">

**I want to make abode HTML like:**

class="row"
class="header"
class="navigation"
class="container"
class="footer"

Here keeping my desired texts before and after, and removing all other texts. So what I can do? Anybody can help me.. ?

In visual code you can push alt and click on the lines you want to modify at the same time, in Notepad ++ I think it is called column select or something like that... — EdKenbers, Jun 19 '20 at 06:04

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 19 '20 at 06:03

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You could try the following find and replace, in regex mode:

Find:    <\S+ (class=".*?")>
Replace: $1

This would capture the class attribute along with its RHS value, and then replace with just this captured quantity.

Demo

answered Jun 19 '20 at 06:03

Tim Biegeleisen

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Super. Can I do it in my Notepad ++ ? I don't know about "regex mode". – user2996362 Jun 19 '20 at 06:25
Yes, in fact you only have to choose replace from the drop down menu, and make sure that regex mode is enabled. – Tim Biegeleisen Jun 19 '20 at 06:28

EdKenbers · Answer 2 · 2020-06-19T06:11:37.947

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Hold shift and alt and use the mouse to select a vertical portion of text. This will do the trick for the begining.

edited Jun 19 '20 at 06:11

answered Jun 19 '20 at 06:05

EdKenbers

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It looks like you are suggesting doing a block select to remove `
` at the end of each line, all of which are in different columns?
– Tim Biegeleisen Jun 19 '20 at 06:29
Yes, it's the problem I don't know about regexp in Notepad++, I think it's better solution :) – EdKenbers Jun 19 '20 at 06:34

How to keep only desired texts "Before and After" in Notepadd + ? Remove all other texts

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