How to adapt this simple regexp to line breaks?

Question

Regular Expressions

Friends, I really hope that the issue is simply resolved :)
There is a regsp that removes the active link, leaving the anchors:

<a([^>]+)>(.*)</a>
меняем на $2

and get from the source code

<a title="sites" target="_blank" href="https://www.siterere.com/me.php"> <font color="#B0B0B0" size="2" face="Arial">Siterer</font></a>

like this:

<font color="#B0B0B0" size="2" face="Arial">Siterer</font>

It's perfect. But! If the link tag spans several lines, then the specified regexp no longer finds the link, i.e. he does not see the link in this code:

<a title="sites" target="_blank" href="https://www.siterere.com/me.php">
              <font color="#B0B0B0" size="2" face="Arial">Siterer</font>
              </a>

Is it possible to somehow fix it so that the regsp looks not only within the boundaries of one line, but also several lines further?