VS Code multiline search and replace for HTML / XML tags? [duplicate]

Question

How to search for a start and ending tag that may include multiple non-blank lines?

<body myattr="hello" >
  <title>Hello</title>
</body>

<element>Surprise!!!</element>

<body myattr="goodbye" >
  <title>Goodbye</title>
</body>

Ed of the Mountain · Accepted Answer

Answer kindly provided to me by VS Code developer. May it help others.

Thank you @roblourens!

<body[
\s\S]*?</body>

This is useful to replace or delete unwanted elements in XML or HTML.

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