Hi, You can do this in two ways. If you right click the Author, in the "Refactoring" menu you can find the "Delete element tags" action with the "Ctrl-Alt-X" keyboard shortcut. You can also go to the start or to the end of the element and press Del or Backspace. This will delete the element tags. Regards, Radu -- Radu Coravu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com Eliot Kimber wrote:

I often want to remove a containing element from around one or more child elements. I'm not seeing a direct way to do that in Author. I'd like it to be bound to a keystroke by default and, if possible, on a toolbar button.

Cheers,

Eliot