Is it possible to search and replace text without touching html tags?

[alfredodo1]

Hi
I was wondering if we can search and replace text in a HTML file but not in the HTML tags only the text that appear when you load an HTML page in a browser?

For example, say I want to replace the letter A by B in this line :

<A HREF=“url”>A B C </A>

Since the letter A is also in the tags, is it possible to only replace the letter A appearing outside the tags?

Thank you much for your help guys

[guy038]

Hello, @alfredodo1 and All

The regex S/R, below, would search for any A letter, whatever its case, inside the dots area ( . ) ONLY, even if divided in several lines, in the statement <A HREF=bla bla bla bla blah>..................</A> and replace it with the uppercase letter B

SEARCH (?si)(?:\G|<A HREF=.+?>)(?:(?!<|>).)*?\KA

REPLACE B

Notes :

• The part, to look for, is located after the \K

• Of course you may use other tags , instead of “a href=” !

Just test it with that text below :

 <A HREF="https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp">Visit "W3Schools" to get the 'A B C' of HTML, JAVASCRIPT, PHP, XML, ASP,... !</A>
 
 <a href="https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp">Visit "W3Schools" to get the 'a b c' of HTML, JAVASCRIPT, PHP, XML, ASP,... !</a>
 
 <A href="https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp">
 Visit "W3Schools" to get 
 the 'A B C' of html, javascript, php
 , xml, asp,... !
 </a>

Best Regards,

guy038

[alfredodo1]

Hi guy038 you really rock thank you so much for your help, that’s very kind from you. Your solution works wonder, thanks for this very detailed help !