Say I have a stylesheet, and I want to grab certain values out. For example, I need the the script to parse through this: <style type="text/css"> table, tr, td { background-color:transparent; border:none; border-width:0;} body { background-color:fd00c2; background-image:url('bg.gif'); background-attachment:fixed; background-position:bottom left; background-repeat:no-repeat; } table table { border: 0px } table table table table{border:0px} table table table { border-style:solid; border-width:8px; border-color:000; background-color:fd00c2; PHP: and I needed to grab these parts out border-color:000; PHP: body { background-color:fd00c2; background-image:url('bg.gif'); background-attachment:fixed; background-position:bottom left; background-repeat:no-repeat; } PHP: . And another thing is, the code could be jumbled up aswell, as in, body { } could be at the bottom of the file. How could you match up, and grab out these sections? This is what I've got so far: <?php $code = stripslashes($_GET['code']); preg_match("~(.*?background-color:.*?)~", $code, $bgcolor); echo $bgcolor[0]; ?> PHP: If I knew how to understand what all this .*?~ etc is in the pattern matching, I'm thinking I could find the body { section then echo everything inside it, until it reaches the next }, and for the next part I could look for the table table table { section then echo the border-color:000000 until it reaches the next } and so on. Then theres the problem with if all the code is on one line!