Regular Expression to remove HTML tables

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on Tuesday, 12th September 2006
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Just figured out this regular expression to remove all tables from a HTML document:

</?table[^>]*>|</?tr[^>]*>|</?td[^>]*>|</?thead[^>]*>|</?tbody[^>]*>

Extremely useful for cleaning up prehistoric mark-up with a text editor that supports regular expression find-and-replace searches.

And to go all the way, this one removes font tags too:

</?table[^>]*>|</?tr[^>]*>|</?td[^>]*>|</?thead[^>]*>|</?tbody[^>]*>|</?font[^>]*>

5 Responses to “Regular Expression to remove HTML tables”

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  1. 1 E_Jim
    Tuesday, 08th January 2008 at 8:30 pm

    Thanks a lot, you have no idea how much time you’ve saved me!

  2. 2 kjdash
    Tuesday, 11th March 2008 at 3:04 pm

    Pretty good, but missing a few things:


    ]*>|]*>|]*>|]*>|]*>|]*>|]*>|]*>

    would be more complete.
    Thanks for the foundation

  3. 3 kjdash
    Tuesday, 11th March 2008 at 3:06 pm

    ugh, it stripped everything else out.

    I added th and tfoot

  4. 4 llll
    Thursday, 10th April 2008 at 7:04 am

    Great code

  5. 5 Mark
    Sunday, 19th October 2008 at 5:32 am

    you’re a legend, thanks a lot for this, save me a fair bit of time!

    cheers.

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