I have some html tags starting with <p> and end with </p> The first tag has in it some other tags such as </li> </ul> </div> and spaces and \n as you can see.

<p></g></svg> </a> </li> </ul> </div> </p> <p>Foarte frumos lucru</p>
<p>I love cars</p>

I want to find and delete all html tags such as the first one that contain </li> </ul> </div>

The Output should be:

 <p>Foarte frumos lucru</p>
<p>I love cars</p>

My solution is not good:

FIND: (?=<p>)[\s\S]*?</li></div>|</ul>[\s\S]*?</p>

REPLACE BY: LEAVE EMPTY

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3 Answers

This will remove all <p> tags that contain only empty tags or spaces:

• Ctrl+H
• Find what: <p>(?:<.+?>|\s)+?</p>\R*
• Replace with: LEAVE EMPTY
• CHECK Wrap around
• CHECK Regular expression
• Replace all

Explanation:

<p> # start tag (?: # non capture group <.+?> # any tag | # OR \s # any kind of space )+? # end group, must appear 1 or more times, not greedy
</p> # end tag
\R* # 0 or more any kind of linebreak

Screenshot (before):

Screenshot (after):

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Use the following:

• Ctrl+H
• Find what: ^(?!.*(</p>)).*|\s+</p>
• Replace with: LEAVE EMPTY
• CHECK Match case
• CHECK Wrap around
• CHECK Regular expression
• UNCHECK . matches newline
• Replace all

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Another solution more complete that can deal with other tags inside the<p> ... </p>.

 <p>[^<>]*</p>\R?(*SKIP)(*F)|.

You can try it here with explanation.

Be aware that all your file will be deleted! Except <p> ... </p>

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