Question

I have a pretty big form with over 4000 values defined by the <option> tag.

I would like to match all values with the visible name. Currently it looks like this:

<option value="1">Name 1</option>
<option value="2">Name 2</option>
...

I would like to receive to achieve the following:

<option value="Name 1">Name 1</option>
<option value="Name 2">Name 2</option>
...

Can someone help me out with a solution?

Answer 1

This would be a perfect opportunity for in-editor jQuery, which I’ve been wanting a long time but have never found. So here’s the next-best thing: find and replace with regular expressions! 😀

Find:

<option(.+?)value=".*?"(.*?)>(.*?)</option>

Replace:

<option$1value="$3"$2>$3</option>

Voilà!