Macro for deletion of unnecessary tags in an HTML file at current position of text cursor

Mr_Ramesh · 8:37 - 16 days ago#12024-05-02T08:37+00:00

I would like a macro which deletes tags based at current position of the caret, no matter where is the text cursor:

at the beginning of an opening tag;
inside an opening tag;
between opening and closing tag;
at the beginning of a closing tag;
inside a closing tag.

The macro should delete opening and closing tag.

Here is an example HTML file.

<html>
<head>
<title>EXAMPLE</title>
</head>
<body>
<p class="indent">EXAMPLE FILE</p>

<p>===Unnecessary tags==</p>

<p>These are useless tags. Opening and closing tags should be deleted together.</p>

<p><b>Aaa</b>
should be just
Aaa</p>

<p><i>Bbb</i>
should be just
Bbb</p>

<p><u>Ccc</u>
should be just
Ccc</p>

<p class="indent">Example <a id="rref6" href="#ref6">6</a>
should be just
Example 6</p>

</body>
</html>

Here is a macro which I have so far. It works only on the opening tag. If the caret is at opening tag, then the two tags are deleted together.

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InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
PerlReOn
Find RegExp Up "(?<=<)\w+"
Copy
UltraEditReOn
Find RegExp "</^c>"
Key DEL
UltraEditReOn
Find RegExp Up "<^c*>"
Key DEL

Mofi · 10:26 - 13 days ago#22024-05-04T10:26+00:00

Here is a macro for this task which was quickly developed and poorly tested with UltraEdit for Windows v2024.0.0.28. It can be used for HTML, XHTML and XML files.

The macro has no HTML / XHTML / XML language knowledge. It does not determine if the text to delete is really an HTML, XHTML or XML tag. It does not analyze the structure to find the matching tag. It just deletes the next closing or opening tag. It does not recognize if there is an opening tag in an HTML file like <li> without the optional end tag </li> for deletion of only the opening tag in this case. It does not determine if the first tag found is an empty tag like <br> or <br />. The user using this macro should know when it is executed and what it really does. There can be of course used the command Undo to undo unwanted deletions.

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InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
UltraEditReOn
IfCharIs "<"
Else
Find MatchCase RegExp "[<>]"
IfNotFound
Find MatchCase RegExp Up "[<>]"
IfNotFound
ExitMacro
EndIf
EndIf
Key LEFT ARROW
IfCharIs ">"
Find MatchCase Up "<"
IfNotFound
ExitMacro
EndIf
Key LEFT ARROW
EndIf
EndIf
Clipboard 9
Key RIGHT ARROW
IfCharIs "/"
Find RegExp "[a-z]+"
IfFound
Copy
Else
ExitMacro
EndIf
Find MatchCase Up "<"
Key LEFT ARROW
Find MatchCase RegExp "</[~>]+>"
Replace ""
Find RegExp Up "<^c[^t^n^r >]"
IfFound
Key LEFT ARROW
Find MatchCase Up "<"
Key LEFT ARROW
Find MatchCase RegExp "<[~>]+>"
Replace ""
EndIf
Else
Find RegExp "[a-z]+"
IfFound
Copy
Else
ExitMacro
EndIf
Find MatchCase Up "<"
Key LEFT ARROW
Find MatchCase RegExp "<[~>]+>"
Replace ""
Find RegExp "</^c[^t^n^r ]++>"
Replace ""
EndIf
ClearClipboard
Clipboard 0

The code is better understandable with indentations.

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InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
UltraEditReOn
IfCharIs "<"
Else
    Find MatchCase RegExp "[<>]"
    IfNotFound
        Find MatchCase RegExp Up "[<>]"
        IfNotFound
            ExitMacro
        EndIf
    EndIf
    Key LEFT ARROW
    IfCharIs ">"
        Find MatchCase Up "<"
        IfNotFound
            ExitMacro
        EndIf
        Key LEFT ARROW
    EndIf
EndIf
Clipboard 9
Key RIGHT ARROW
IfCharIs "/"
    Find RegExp "[a-z]+"
    IfFound
        Copy
    Else
        ExitMacro
    EndIf
    Find MatchCase Up "<"
    Key LEFT ARROW
    Find MatchCase RegExp "</[~>]+>"
    Replace ""
    Find RegExp Up "<^c[^t^n^r >]"
    IfFound
        Key LEFT ARROW
        Find MatchCase Up "<"
        Key LEFT ARROW
        Find MatchCase RegExp "<[~>]+>"
        Replace ""
    EndIf
Else
    Find RegExp "[a-z]+"
    IfFound
        Copy
    Else
        ExitMacro
    EndIf
    Find MatchCase Up "<"
    Key LEFT ARROW
    Find MatchCase RegExp "<[~>]+>"
    Replace ""
    Find RegExp "</^c[^t^n^r ]++>"
    Replace ""
EndIf
ClearClipboard
Clipboard 0

Mr_Ramesh · 14:07 - 13 days ago#32024-05-04T14:07+00:00

Thank you
It works properly