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Is there some way to modify multiple HTML file in multiple folders?

I want to apply a new html design template over an old HTML website. The website it is quite big, and doing this manually will take me quite a long time.

Basically I want to keep title / meta tags / and <body> elements as those are, and replace rest of HTML elements.

I know about Notepad++ but I don't know how to set it up to give me the right output.

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I'm not sure if you can do this with Notepad++, but there are other tools you can use to do it. Microsoft's Expression Web (in the Expression Studio suite) will let attach a DWT (Dynamic Web Template) to as many files as you want. Every time you change the DWT all files it is attached to will automatically be updated, then the content that is unique to each page can be edited in each page individually (called an editable region on the DWT). Dreamweaver has a similar feature, but I have not used it.

If you are a student you can get Expression Studio 4 free from dreamspark, otherwise you can buy it here.

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You may want to consider using Master Pages in Expression Web instead of the DWT (unless you need old Dreamweaver compatibility). Your asp.net developers will love you for it. ;) – techie007 Mar 20 '11 at 16:35
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  1. Open all the files in Notepad++;
  2. Then go to Search;
  3. Find in Files;
  4. Find what part of the code you wish to change.
  5. Next go to Search;
  6. Replace;
  7. Add what the replacement code should be;
  8. Then click on "Replace in all opened documents".
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