regex to identify inline style attributes in the HTML tag

Question

From the html source file i've to identify tag with inline style attribute using java.

For example

<span id="abc" 
 style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'arial black','sans-serif'; color:#5f497a">

Please help

Don't use RegEx to parse HTML. Obligatory link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 — Oded, Aug 17 '10 at 08:34

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 17 '10 at 08:36

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Do not parse HTML with regex. Use a proper HTML parser (there are tons out there for Java), and extract the desired data from the DOM tree.

answered Aug 17 '10 at 08:36

tamasd

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 17 '10 at 08:34

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Using a regex is one way to do it, eg.

/<span[^>]*style=.*?>/

Or alternatively, if the HTML is well formed, load it using a parser and then use an XPath.

//span[@style]

answered Aug 17 '10 at 08:34

a'r

not only for span tag style attribute may present in any block elements – Roshan Aug 17 '10 at 08:39

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