Question

Via a WYSIWYG text editor I insert span tags with a class of “comment”. I want to remove any instances of the span tags and their contents from a string

So how do I get from here:

string content = "<p>sadf<span class="otherclass"><span class="comment">asdfsdafsdafsadfsdf</span></span></p>";

to here:

content = "<p>sadf<span class="otherclass"></span></p>";

I know about the HTMLAgilityPack but don’t want to add the overhead for HTML that I control. I perfer a regex solution.

EDIT: I only want to remove spans with the “comment” class.

Answer 1

Inadequate answer:

content = Regex.Replace(content, @"<span\s+class=""comment"">.*?</span>", "");