I need to modify HTML markup such that a matched word or phrase gets hightlighted, but that phrase may contain markup. For example:
This formatted text :
This <b>f<i>or</i>mat</b>ted text
I'd want to be able to find "This formatted" and wrap it in <style="color:lightblue" </span>
tags
So the above would become:
<span style="color:yellow">This <b>f<i>or</i>mat</b>ted</span> text
I'm using PHP on linux.
Thanks
EDIT: I'm not looking to replace tag but match text that has tags within it. Basically matching a string that may be spaced out with arbitrary tags of any type or length. Please ignore my ancient html tags, they were just easier to type.