Stripping out all HTML tags?

Administrator · Jul 15, 2004

Anyone have a good way of REMOVING all HTML tags from text? I don't want to encode it, I want to REMOVE them. If I capture a column of data in a DB and it has HTML tags, how do I remove the HTML tags from the value of this column?

ayan · Jul 17, 2004

i don't know if this helps mate.

VB.NET:

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
 	  RichTextBox1.Text = "<html>" & Constants.vbCrLf & _
 	  "<head>" & Constants.vbCrLf & _
 	  "<title>the brown monkey</title>" & Constants.vbCrLf & _
 	  "<link rel=stylesheet href=page.css>" & Constants.vbCrLf & _
 	  "</head>" & Constants.vbCrLf & _
 	  "<body>" & Constants.vbCrLf & _
 	  "the quick brown monkey jumps" & Constants.vbCrLf & _
 	  "over the lazy dog." & Constants.vbCrLf & _
 	  "</body></html>"
    End Sub
 
    Sub RemoveHTMLTags()
 	  Dim s As String = "\<(html|/html|title|/title|head|/head|body|/body|link.*)\>"
 	  RichTextBox1.Text = Regex.Replace(RichTextBox1.Text, s, "", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
 	  RemoveHTMLTags()
    End Sub

if not, sorry...

Administrator · Jul 17, 2004

This is a good start, but if someone has <b> or <em> <!-- etc, I need to catch ALL potential HTML tags and remove them.

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