On 2010-06-03, Nick A wrote:
Now I'm stuck with a search window that lists all the tags that were
found, but I don't know how to delete them all. Intuitively I want to
select all and delete, but it doesn't seem to work like that. Using
the find/find all/replace dialog box doesn't seem to be able to do it
all at once. How do I do this all at once?
You need to study BBEdit more. There (of course) is a Replace
All command.
BUT before you do that...
What people have been suggesting is using the search pattern for
the table element markup and replacing each instance with '' -- nothing.
Before you do that, you might consider replacing table element
markup with some easily identifiable character(s), allowing you
to more easily see where the former table markup was, and also
use additional find/replace steps to begin putting your
non-table markup/css in place.
If I were dismantling tables with this brute force "I have to do
it fast" approach, perhaps not knowing for sure yet exactly how
the contents of the tables will be marked up in the new version,
I would at least throw in some white space. Something like
replacing <table> tags with two blank lines, <tr> tags with one
blank line, and <td> & <th> tags with a newline and a tab
(\r\t). That would at least let me see the what was left in
separate pieces.
You could just as easily replace <table> tags with <div> tags,
<tr> tags with <p>, and <td> & <th> with <span>. Taking this
further, try:
replace <table> tags with <div class="former_table">
replace <tr> tags with <p class="former_row">
replace <th> tages with <span class="former_heading">
replace <td> tags with <span class="former_cell">
You're not stuck forever with those classes named "former..." --
you can always do find/replace on them once the stuff being
marked up is integrated with your new css/markup scheme. In the
meantime, though, you have every piece of the former table's
content marked up with style-able structures.
But this really depends on whether the table's organization of
its contents maps closely to how you want to organize the
content in the new version. It probably won't map well, and
you'll have to do some hand work rearranging the content to work
with css layout. Then I think your job is simpler if you do
something like what I've suggested in above with white space.
HTH
- Bruce
_bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_
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