Find out which pages use tables on website

[Darkelve]

Is there a way to find out which pages have tables inside of a specific <div>?

The website I need this for is huge so I don't want to go through it manually.

[swa66]

That requires parsing the html.

IF (and it's a big one) you used xhtml and it's guaranteed to be well structured (read: validates) you could use xml tools to do the parsing.

Otherwise you'll always have a chance for false decisions based on not so well structured input into the parser.
But a parser might look like:
- remove comments

- skip to the interesting div
- set level to 0
- start reading input and copy it to output
- if you meet a <div>: level++
- if you meed a </div>: level-- ; if level<0: skip till end.

Look at output to see it there's a <table> inside: if so: flag it

[penders]

Does your editor support searching mutliple files (inc sub directories) for a regular expression? If so, you might (if suitably structured - see above) be able to construct an appropriate regexp to do the job?

(Notepad++ supports this)