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From: Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
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Subject: Re: Purge *ALL* CSS from an HTML document
Date: 10 Feb 2026 04:10:29 -0400
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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?  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.  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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Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada