Issue
I have an asp.net web page that has a TinyMCE box. Users can format text and send the HTML to be stored in a database.
On the server, I would like to take strip the html from the text so I can store only the text in a Full Text indexed column for searching.
It's a breeze to strip the html on the client using jQuery's text() function, but I would really rather do this on the server. Are there any existing utilities that I can use for this?
EDIT
See my answer.
EDIT 2
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Solution
I downloaded the HtmlAgilityPack and created this function:
string StripHtml(string html)
{
// create whitespace between html elements, so that words do not run together
html = html.Replace(">","> ");
// parse html
var doc = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(html);
// strip html decoded text from html
string text = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(doc.DocumentNode.InnerText);
// replace all whitespace with a single space and remove leading and trailing whitespace
return Regex.Replace(text, @"\s+", " ").Trim();
}
Answered By - Ronnie Overby
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