removing html

**jdavison** · Apr 2nd, 2001, 12:25 PM

Anybody know how to go about removing all html from user entered text?

**alex_read** · Apr 2nd, 2001, 12:47 PM

How is the user to enter this ?

You could use vb's replace function if it's small :

Code:

REPLACE "<HTML>", text1.text, ""

Or are you looking at a whole web page type thing ???

**jdavison** · Apr 2nd, 2001, 12:51 PM

I could but the I would have to write a rplace for every html tag and then parse the text looking for hrefs,img,form... since the tags vary. I was hoping there was a better way to do it

**JoshT** · Apr 2nd, 2001, 01:30 PM

Just convert the < and > to > and <

**alex_read** · Apr 4th, 2001, 02:13 AM

J, awkward but I think needed. If you could give me an example of what this is for / the context you need this for would help.

Josh, that would still keep :
HTML from :
<HTML>
so he would get a load of extra words in his text.

What you could do is use an array for all the tags, something like :

Code:

Dim ArrTag(5) as variant
'Note : Arrays always start at 0, so me declaring a scope 
of 5 spaces here really gives 6 - 0,1,2,3,4 and 5

ArrTag = Array(<HTML>, <HEAD>, <BODY>, <SCRIPT>, <TABLE>, <TR>, <TD>)
So you only type them once, put each tag into an array

For i = 0 to ubound(ArrTag)
'Go through all the array until the bottom entry is reached
    Replace ArrTag(i), Text1.text, ""
    ' change the tag with a blank space
Next i

**JoshT** · Apr 4th, 2001, 11:19 AM

VBScript supports regular expressions now, right? I have some Perl code somewhere I wrote a couple years ago that will strip HTML tags from user text. What it basically would do is to find < and the next >, and strip them and everything in between.

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