Re: Purge ALL CSS from an HTML document

From	Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.seamonkey
Subject	Re: Purge ALL CSS from an HTML document
Date	2026-02-10 07:42 -0600
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On 2/10/26 2:10 AM, Mike Spencer wrote:
> Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> writes:
> 
>> As I replied to David. I'm not sure my goal was clear in my original
>> post. I rewrote it as:     > I'm looking for a procedure that will
>> accept an HTML file WITH
>>        > CSS and then output an "equivalent" HTML4 file with NO CSS.
> 
> This is for a file you have on your own machine?

Yes.

>  Load it in an editor
> (emacs my choice) and create a macro that replaces an instance of
> "<STYLE> [anything] </STYLE>" with "" and execute it as many times as
> needed.

Wont work in my case.
The whole Bible is stored as >1400 HTML files and one CSS file in a 
single directory [there is a sub-directory handling fonts].

>  And Perl regular expressions will do that, too -- you just
> have to be sure to use the perl regex locution (the '?' after '+')
> that makes matching "<STYLE>.+?</STYLE>" non-greedy.
> 
> 
>

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Purge *ALL* CSS from an HTML document Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2026-01-29 08:40 -0600
  Re: Purge *ALL* CSS from an HTML document "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2026-01-29 08:09 -0800
    Re: Purge *ALL* CSS from an HTML document Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2026-01-29 12:08 -0600
  Re: Purge *ALL* CSS from an HTML document Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2026-01-29 20:08 +0100
    Re: Purge *ALL* CSS from an HTML document Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2026-01-29 20:13 +0100
      Re: Purge *ALL* CSS from an HTML document Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2026-01-29 15:33 -0600
        Re: Purge *ALL* CSS from an HTML document Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2026-02-10 04:10 -0400
          Re: Purge *ALL* CSS from an HTML document Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2026-02-10 07:42 -0600
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                Re: Purge *ALL* CSS from an HTML document Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2026-02-13 16:50 +0100
                Re: Purge *ALL* CSS from an HTML document Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2026-02-14 05:04 -0600
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