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Asked: 2026-05-17T18:06:12+00:00

I’m in notepad++ and I need to add a / right before the closing

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I’m in notepad++ and I need to add a / right before the closing > in the following line:

<meta name="description" content="*****">

the ***** above is a bunch of text that I need left in place, and it changes from page to page, thus my need for some find / replace method that is superior to what I would normally be capable of. I assume regex would be the right way to go.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This seems to do the trick for me (in NP++):

    Find: (<meta name="description" [^>]+)>

    Replace with: \1/>

    Has some caveats, but it’ll work for a simple search/replace, which it sounds like you’re doing. Was I right in assuming that you’re trying to only do this on <meta> tags with attributes of name="description"?

    Edit – Tested it with the Replace All button and went from this:

    <meta name="description" content="ljfkdl">
<meta name="description" content="039814">
<meta name="description" content="lkjai983j">
<meta name="description" content="whak.dlai3#">
<meta name="description" content="ljfdal&&3lk">
<meta name="description" content="a b c ake87">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="description" content="memememe">
<meta name="description" content="alkd3988aj38#!">

    To this:

    <meta name="description" content="ljfkdl"/>
<meta name="description" content="039814"/>
<meta name="description" content="lkjai983j"/>
<meta name="description" content="whak.dlai3#"/>
<meta name="description" content="ljfdal&&3lk"/>
<meta name="description" content="a b c ake87"/>
<meta name="description" content=""/>
<meta name="description" content="memememe"/>
<meta name="description" content="alkd3988aj38#!"/>
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