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Asked: 2026-06-04T03:47:23+00:00

Ok, as it is WordPress problem and it sadly goes a little deeper, I

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Ok, as it is WordPress problem and it sadly goes a little deeper, I need to remove each representation of parent div and its inside:

<div class="sometestclass">
   <img ....>
   <div>.....</div>
   any other html tags
</div><!-- END: .sometestclass -->

The only idea I have is to match everything that starts with:

<div class="sometestclass">

and ends with:

<!-- END: .sometestclass -->

with all that is between (I can tag the end of parent div anyway I want, this is just a sample).
Anybody have an idea how to do it with:

<?php $content = preg_replace('?????','',$content); ?>
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  1. Editorial Team

    I wouldn’t use a regular expression. Instead, I would use the DOMDocument class. Just find all of the div elements with that class, and remove them from their parent(s):

    $html = "<p>Hello World</p>
         <div class='sometestclass'>
           <img src='foo.png'/>
           <div>Bar</div>
         </div>";

$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTML( $html );

$xpath = new DOMXPath( $dom );
$pDivs = $xpath->query(".//div[@class='sometestclass']");

foreach ( $pDivs as $div ) {
  $div->parentNode->removeChild( $div );
}

echo preg_replace( "/.*<body>(.*)<\/body>.*/s", "$1", $dom->saveHTML() );

    Which results in:

    <p>Hello World</p>
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