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Asked: 2026-05-11T16:30:13+00:00

Let’s say I wanted to remove vowels from HTML: <a href=foo>Hello there!</a>Hi! becomes <a

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Let’s say I wanted to remove vowels from HTML:

<a href="foo">Hello there!</a>Hi!

becomes

<a href="foo">Hll thr!</a>H!

I figure this is a job for Beautiful Soup. How can I select the text in between tags and operate on it like this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Suppose the variable test_html has the following html content:

    <html>
<head><title>Test title</title></head>
<body>
<p>Some paragraph</p>
Useless Text
<a href="http://stackoverflow.com">Some link</a>not a link
<a href="http://python.org">Another link</a>
</body></html>

    Just do this:

    from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

test_html = load_html_from_above()
soup = BeautifulSoup(test_html)

for t in soup.findAll(text=True):
    text = unicode(t)
    for vowel in u'aeiou':
        text = text.replace(vowel, u'') 
    t.replaceWith(text)

print soup

    That prints:

    <html>
<head><title>Tst ttl</title></head>
<body>
<p>Sm prgrph</p>
Uslss Txt
<a href="http://stackoverflow.com">Sm lnk</a>nt  lnk
<a href="http://python.org">Anthr lnk</a>
</body></html>

    Note that the tags and attributes are untouched.

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