Re: Purge ALL CSS from an HTML document

From	Dirk Fieldhouse <surname@gmx.net.plusremovethisandtherest.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.seamonkey
Subject	Re: Purge ALL CSS from an HTML document
Date	2026-02-12 14:38 +0000
Organization	speaking personally
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On 11/02/2026 15:27, Richard Owlett wrote:>...>
> I have ANOTHER project for which I want a CSS free HTML file.
> ...
Do you want:
1.	no CSS syntax at all?
2.	to strip out all mention of the external CSS?
3.	that, but to have the same styles applied within the HTML document?

For 3, put the content of the CSS file inside <style
type="text/css">...</style> (the type attribute is needed in HTML4), say
just before the closing "</head>". See also
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28258579/modify-html-file-to-embed-all-external-scripts-and-css-into-script-and-style>.

For 2, remove any <link ... rel="stylesheet" ...> element whose href
attribute matches the unwanted CSS file (or just any such element).

For 1, do 2 and also remove all <style> elements and style= attributes.

Having identified which option applies, you could formulate a command
using (eg) sed, or teco if you have it, that implements the desired
change. The linked SO suggests the BeautifulSoup Python module which
would be a more correct way of manipulating HTML than regular expression
search-and-replace.

Then (assuming that, as I understand, OP is a Linux user) you could use
the xargs command, or a POSIX shell "for" loop, to apply the command to
each of the 1400 files. You may have time for a cup of tea while that runs.

/df

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        Re: Purge *ALL* CSS from an HTML document Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2026-02-10 04:10 -0400
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                Re: Purge *ALL* CSS from an HTML document Dirk Fieldhouse <surname@gmx.net.plusremovethisandtherest.invalid> - 2026-02-12 14:38 +0000
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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
                Re: Purge *ALL* CSS from an HTML document Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2026-02-16 18:28 +0100
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