Don't do that ;) 
#!/usr/bin/perl --

use warnings;
use strict;
use HTML::TreeBuilder;

my $html = <<'__HTML__';
<p>and a <font face="Verdana">one <a href="link.html">two</a> three</f
+ont> four</p>
<p>another |<font name="one">one</font>| and another |<font name="two"
+> one </font>|</p>
__HTML__


{
    my $h = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_content($html);

    print $h->as_HTML('<>&',' ',{}), "\n";

    $h->look_down(_tag => q{font},
        sub{
            $_[0]->replace_with_content(
                $_[0]->content_refs_list
            );
            return;
        },
    );

    print $h->as_HTML('<>&',' ',{}), "\n";


}
__END__
<html>
 <head>
 </head>
 <body>
  <p>and a <font face="Verdana">one <a href="link.html">two</a> three<
+/font> four</p>
  <p>another |<font name="one">one</font>| and another |<font name="tw
+o"> one </font>|</p>
 </body>
</html>

<html>
 <head>
 </head>
 <body>
  <p>and a one <a href="link.html">two</a> three four</p>
  <p>another |one| and another | one |</p>
 </body>
</html>

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In reply to Re: Removing font tags using HTML::TreeBuilder by Anonymous Monk
in thread Removing font tags using HTML::TreeBuilder by wfsp

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