hi is there any why to strip tags from html in asp.net
as the abstract column we use in search , normally shows faulty tags results.
as far as i have seen on the net
i havn't found any proper function to remove every tag as we can see in php striptag removes all the html tags but asp.net is not able to do so.


plz help me out

It's something like this:

System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(Server.HtmlDecode(strHTMLText), @"(\<[^\<]*\>)

Pretty messy, I know. Can you post back here if you find a better way?

Stripped = Regex.Replace(HtmlContent, @"<(.|\n)*?>", string.Empty);

Have a look on my own implementation of the PHP's strip_tags function in ASP.NET here -> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/MCMS/htmlTagStripper.aspx

 >i havn't found any proper function to remove every tag as we can see in php striptag removes all the html tags but asp.net is not able to do so.

In what circumstances are you wanting to strip tags? If it is check some HTML input by a user, there is an IsValidHtmlFragment function in the common data project at  http://www.CodePlex.Com/CommonData

One of the easiest ways to strip tags in .NET is to use the HTML Web Control objects themselves. All you really need to do is insert your string into a temporary HTML object such as a DIV, then use the built-in 'InnerText' to grab all text that is not contained within tags. See below for a simple C# example:

System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlGenericControl htmlDiv = new System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlGenericControl("div");
htmlDiv.InnerHtml = htmlString;
String plainText = htmlDiv.InnerText;

mnotpit:

One of the easiest ways to strip tags in .NET is to use the HTML Web Control objects themselves. All you really need to do is insert your string into a temporary HTML object such as a DIV, then use the built-in 'InnerText' to grab all text that is not contained within tags. See below for a simple C# example:

System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlGenericControl htmlDiv = new System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlGenericControl("div");
htmlDiv.InnerHtml = htmlString;
String plainText = htmlDiv.InnerText;

good

I was looking for along time for such solution ,because reguler exprissions not work fine with all cases

@mnotpit.  Very cool -- I'm going to try that.