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Asked: 2026-05-26T09:32:45+00:00

Attempting regex on a HTML file with the following code: <body style=><p class=Normal style=direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:normal;><span

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Attempting regex on a HTML file with the following code:

<body style=""><p class="Normal" style="direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:normal;"><span class="Normal-H"><span class="-H" style="font-weight:bold;"></span><span class="-H" style="font-weight:bold;">Some bold text</span></span></p><p class="Normal" style="direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:normal;"><span class="Normal-H"><span class="-H" style="font-style:italic;"></span><span class="-H" style="font-style:italic;">Some italic text</span></span></p></body></html>

Note the <span class="-H" style="font-weight:bold;">Some bold text</span>

I am currently using PHP preg_replace '/<span class="-H" style="font-style:italic;">(.*?)<\/span>/', to replace as <strong>Some bold text</strong>however this is limited to spans with the class "-H"

How might I replace any instance of <span> that includes the attribute style="font-weight:bold;" with <strong>Bold text</strong>?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your RegEx should be:

    %^(<span(.*?)style="font-weight:bold;"(.*?)>(.*?)</span>)$% // % is the delimeter.

    You should place the the text into strong tag like this:

    <strong>$4</strong>

    Tested at http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascriptexample.html

    $text = '<span class="-H" style="font-weight:bold;">Some bold text</span>';
$regex = '%^(<span(.*?)style="font-weight:bold;"(.*?)>(.*?)</span>)$%';
$replace = '<strong>$4</strong>';
echo preg_replace($regex, $replace, $text);
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