Comments on: RobLab - A script to remove all HTML tags

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:13:15 +0000

Hakan,

Absolutely, that’s a nice approach!

Sorry about the code stripping, good that you made it with your second comment.

By: Hakan Bilgin

Hakan Bilgin — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:43:42 +0000

Hmm…My regular expression was deleted in the submission… a new try?

String.prototype.stripHTML = function() {return this.replace(/<.*?>/g, ”);}

By: Hakan Bilgin

Hakan Bilgin — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:41:52 +0000

I prefer extending the string object with a new method:

String.prototype.stripHTML = function() {return this.replace(//g, ”);}

Exampe:

var foo = ‘hello robert…’;

alert(foo.stripHTML());

Less code, more handy…
/hbi

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:53:17 +0000

Lim,

Ah, now I know what you mean. Yes, that looked a bit misleading, didn’t it?

It’s corrected now, and reads:
< is replaced with < and > is replaced with >

And yes, my commenting system can do some weird HTML escaping things sometimes, sorry.

By: Lim Chee Aun

Lim Chee Aun — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:08:12 +0000

Uh, not I mean, there’s one line there sounds a bit weird:
i.e. < is replaced with < and > is replaced with >

Somehow your commenting system here seems to have problems with HTML entities.. Sorry

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:26:35 +0000

Lim,

Thanks for your comment.

If you mean that the source code of the example page was invalid due to unescaped ampersands, you’re completely right. I’ve fixed that now.
Thanks!

By: Lim Chee Aun

Lim Chee Aun — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:06:43 +0000

If I’m not mistaken, you forgot to put more &s to the &’s, for the code example on that page:

/* This line is optional, it replaces escaped brackets with real ones, i.e. is replaced with > */

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:48:01 +0000

Hi Egor,

That was pretty much the reason for me writing this script to begin with. I needed to extract some text without formatting and it was stored with HTML tags mixed in it.

Hopefully it helps you out when needed!

By: Egor Kloos

Egor Kloos — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:41:50 +0000

This always makes me wonder how I store my own content. WYSIWYG editors in CMS systems like FCKEditor asume that content is always stored with it’s layout formatting when in many cases this in not desired. Handy script, I’ll give it a look see.