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RegEx Search in Coda to find missing <ul> tags

I'm repairing a broken website for a local municipality where there are rogue <li>, <dd>, <dt> (you name it) tags with no start-tags.

I'm no RegEx expert by any means and I'm looking for a possible search query in Coda (which allows regex searches) to find any group of list items for example that aren't wrapped in <ul></ul> or <ol></ol>.

Any thoughts out there? Wild cards are allowed (*) works for our example here.

Many thanks,
Jason

Solution

  • Short answer, no, I don't think there's a way you can really do that in a regex (at least, not with certainty -- HTML and regex just don't mix). You're probably better off using The W3C HTML Validator.