regex to replace HTML sorrounding tag

Question

im trying to replace an html tag with another one using notepad++ search and replace. i would like this:

<strong style="font-size: 1em;"><br />some text</strong>

to become this

<h3>some text</h3>

so far i have reached this:

<strong style="font-size: 1em;"\s(.*?)><br />(.*?)</strong>

and am not sure what to put inside "replace with", is this ok:

 <h3>$1</h3>

?

Thanks

Answer 1

The regex should be this for catching...

<strong style="font-size: 1em;"\s?(.*?)><br />(.*?)</strong>

this \s should be optional according to your html

Answer 2

Try this as the replacement pattern.

<h3>\2</h3>

You can reference capture groups (between parenthesis) in the regex by \n where n is the number of the group.