Regular expression remove tag after a paragraph with a given class

Is there a way to select all <br> tags that开发者_Go百科 follow a paragraph with a given class? i.e. <p class="myclass">This is a paragraph</p><br>

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

br {display:none;} 

and I cannot delete all <br> tags. If there is a way to select these particular <br> 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 <br> 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

p.myClass+br {display:none;}

This will select all <br> elements that are directly adjacent to a <p class="myClass"> element. If you need anything more dynamic than that, you will need regex.

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

Go to Search > Find... (Command + F), do "Seach For" </p><br> and "Replace With" </p> 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.

Supposing you want to use regex to delete all <br> 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.