removing html attributes by preg_replace

hello! could somebody please help me to build a regexp to strip some attributes from html code? i'd like to remove all class="" attributes from html, but the example below seems not match i don't know what i'm doing wrong, this simply doesn't work! <?php $html = '<A href="http://www.anywhere.com" class="link"></A>'; echo "input:<br>".htmlspecialchars($html)."<hr>"; $html = preg_replace("|(<\w+[^>]*) +class=\"?.*\"?([^>]*)|iU", \\1\\2, $html); echo "output:<br>".htmlspecialchars($html)."<hr>"; ?> input: <A href="http://www.anywhere.com" class="link"></A> output: <A href="http://www.anywhere.com""link"></A> why this always removes 'class=' only??? thanx for any help -lharp- _________________ aurius media studio http://www.aurius.sk