title: How can I Find/Replace part of a wildcard search in Notepad++
body: <p>Simple Example.<br />
  When I'm editing CSS.
  I want to Find all &quot;backgrounds&quot; regardless of the number sequence, so I'm using <code>.*</code></p>
  <p><em>~~~Example:</em><br />
  <strong>Find</strong> <code>background: #.*;</code></p>
  <blockquote>
  <p><strong>(Found 4 Matches)</strong></p>
  <p>Line12: background: #111111;</p>
  <p>Line24: background: #222222;</p>
  <p>Line36: background: #333333;</p>
  <p>Line48: background: #444444;</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>&quot;Found (#) of lines matching&quot;<br />
  Great, works perfect!</p>
  <p><strong>(The next part is the where I'm having trouble)</strong></p>
  <p>Now I want to Replace, or in this case wrap all these lines with /*  */, without removing the individual numbers.<br />
  (To remove certain backgrounds, when I'm done editing the page.)</p>
  <p><em>~~~Example:</em><br />
  <strong>Replace With</strong> <code>/* background: #.*; */</code></p>
  <blockquote>
  <p><em><strong>Doesn't give me this:</strong></em></p>
  <p>Line12: /* background: #111111; */</p>
  <p>Line24: /* background: #222222; */</p>
  <p>Line36: /* background: #333333; */</p>
  <p>Line48: /* background: #444444; */</p>
  <p><em><strong>Instead, it give me this:</strong></em></p>
  <p>Line12: /* background: #.*; */</p>
  <p>Line24: /* background: #.*; */</p>
  <p>Line36: /* background: #.*; */</p>
  <p>Line48: /* background: #.*; */</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>I can't figure out how to keep the numbers (regardless of the variety of combinations) from changing in the code and only add /* <em><strong>around the code</strong></em> */</p>