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Visual Studio Code – How to remove all instances of an HTML tag VS Code

I have an HTML file that has many useless tags like empty <p> tags, and <span>‘s that I want to delete. Is there any easy way to remove all <span>‘s from my document without finding each one and deleting it?

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    Yes. You can use a regex to highlight all the empty elements and then just replace them with nothing. The regex is <[^/>][^>]*>s*n*</[^>]+>, which includes empty tags that span multiple lines.

    In VSC, when you do a search and replace (CTRL + H), make sure you have the "Use Regular Expression" option selected (Alt + R), use the above regex, and then replace it with nothing.

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    Unfortunately, I don’t think that there’s any package or an extension that can help you with it, however, what I personally usually do in cases like such: highlight one of the tags that I need removed, reach out to Select all occurrences of current word shortcut in VS Code:

    • for Mac it’s Cmd + F2 or fn + Cmd + F2 on the highlighted word
    • for Windows its Ctrl + F2

    and with Cmd + Backspace remove all lines with the highlighted tags.

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