I've mostly used the good old MkI delete key - the most-used key on my keyboard. When I started renovating web sites, and using word docs and FrontPage sites, I tried using automated methods - search and replace and the like - and found there was always something left. A single <b> or a <i> somewhere that affected half the remaining page. Or a <font> tag that didn't exactly match the search criteria so it would be left. Or a table that I really did want kept would be deleted. These fixes I found would often take just as long as going through the page and deleting stuff in the first place.
Another way is to select/copy from the rendered page in a browser. That way you only pick up the content if you get the select right, and you don't pick up all the associated table structure. Dreamweaver has powerful search and replace functions. For example, you can have it delete all <font> tags, regardless of the attributes, or all <span> tags. And with a single click you can convert the file to XHTML. It'll go through the file closing off tags, fixing case, adding quotes to attributes etc. And Dreamweaver's Word Clean-up function is magic. Watch it reduce a simple word html document of 500 lines to about 50 or fewer with no change in the rendered content! Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lea de Groot Subject: Re: [WSG] technique of converting to tablefree layout [snip] Yes, once someone said 'regexp' i went Doh! and got on with the job :) What can I say, except I have a headcold? :) Thanks, all Lea -- Lea de Groot ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
