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I just got a website project and the previous host was not nice about letting the customer leave. The method they suggested of getting the website was to go to all the pages and view source - save as... for the whole site. Then do the same thing for images and stylesheets... I quickly got the files using offline browsing software - it takes about a minute - versus the 3-4 hours of view source, save as... The one problem that I faces was that there was a catalog with a database backend and they weren\'t going to be able to get the catalog files - only the data. So the first step was to get the main website up - minus the shopping cart - but the shopping cart was directly linked from the product pages. So I figured that I could use a regular expression and honestly I need to brush up on them anyways - but like always there is a time element for this project. So I happened to stumble on an easy way to strip out all links and retain the anchor text.
1. In dreamweaver open up the find and replace window (ctrl F on windows).
2. Now in the Search drop down list is a value called "Specific Tag" - select that.
3. Next to the with attributes label select the a option - link
4. In the action drop down you have many options and one of them happens to be the strip tag option. Now you can do a replace all if you want to replace all of the links on the particular file you are doing this with - or you can simply find and replace 1 by 1 on your file. It\'s alot faster than eye-balling it.
That\'s it - there\'s lot\'s of other options in the whole specific tag section.