Online parser to automatically strip ALL comments from HTML except for conditionals?

Question

Does anyone know of an online parser to automatically remove ALL comments EXCEPT for necessary conditionals? ie

<!--[if lt IE 9]>

I tried various forms of HTML5 minification but its buggy

Also saw these php solutions but would prefer to use an online parser if one already exists Removing all html comments except internet explorer comments using regex and php

score 25 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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If you want to see the source, it is here: http://jsfiddle.net/DerekL/BUVkS/

Put your HTML code inside, then click remove comments.
It will then remove all comments and left with the conditionals.

(Used that PHP regular expression you put (the link) and I put it into JavaScript plus a little modification to match newlines)

/<!--(?!\s*(?:\[if [^\]]+]|<!|>))(?:(?!-->)(.|\n))*-->/g

edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

Community

answered Apr 29 '12 at 21:01

@user01 - Go to my demo, type in some HTML code with comments in it, click on remove comment. – Derek 朕會功夫 Oct 05 '13 at 22:02
Actually your code fails when there are new line characters in the comments. Try out after pressing `Enter` in between one of your comments. Otherwise its ok. – Rajat Gupta Oct 06 '13 at 04:51
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Excellent! I'll add to bookmarks this awesome tool! – Rajat Gupta Oct 06 '13 at 19:11
This script removes JavaScript code inside – Michael Spector Jun 29 '14 at 08:38

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 03 '13 at 14:13

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I've found this online js comment removal tool that seems to work fine

answered Jun 03 '13 at 14:13

opensas

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The poster's looking for something to strip comments from HTML. – codeinthehole Jan 26 '18 at 11:53

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