my $parser = HTML::TokeParser->new(\$content); while (my $token=$parser->get_tag("div")) { if($token->[1]{id} =~ /containerID/i) { my $parser1 = HTML::TokeParser->new(\$token->as_is); while (my $token1=$parser1->get_tag("div")) { next if($token1->[1]{id} =~ /removeID/i); $out = ???; } } } var $newContent = "". $out . "";