<![CDATA[Removing everything but the content of certain HTML tags]]>Say, I open an HTML page in Notepad++.

This page has a lot of stuff, but especially these two tags:

<div id=“first id” class=“first class”>CONTENT</div>

<div id=“second id” class=“second class”>CONTENT</div>

I’d like to remove everything from the file, but the CONTENT of these two tags. How could I do that in the most efficient manner?

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/14295/removing-everything-but-the-content-of-certain-html-tagsRSS for NodeMon, 20 Apr 2026 05:40:19 GMTWed, 09 Aug 2017 11:59:20 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Removing everything but the content of certain HTML tags on Sun, 13 Aug 2017 17:36:32 GMT]]>This worked well! Thank you!

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/26242https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/26242Sun, 13 Aug 2017 17:36:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Removing everything but the content of certain HTML tags on Wed, 09 Aug 2017 19:17:16 GMT]]>I’m not sure, if this is an efficient way, but at least it is one way: You could use a regular expressions and replace everything with the parentheses placeholders. Open the replace dialog (Ctrl + H) and enter in “Find what” following regular expression:

(.*?)(<div id=\"first id\" class=\"first class\">)(.*?)(<\/div>)(.*?)(<div id=\"second id\" class=\"second class\">)(.*?)(<\/div>)(.*)

And in the “Replace with” field: ${3}${7}
Or, alternatively: ${3}\r\n${7}

The second one will add a line break between the two contents. You must also set the “Search Mode” to “Regular expression” and check the checkmark “. matches newline”. Finally, click “Replace all”.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/26191https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/26191Wed, 09 Aug 2017 19:17:16 GMT