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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	A tricky one to dig out from a search engine as there is a lot of code out there to strip JavaScript and HTML tags but there are some interesting solutions. The first runs through the string and builds a new one stopping when it is inside a tag: [code]function stripHTML(oldString) { var newString = ""; var inTag = false; for(var i = 0; i < oldString.length; i++) { if(oldString.charAt(i) == '<') inTag = true; if(oldString.charAt(i) == '>') { if(oldString.charAt(i+1)=="<") { //dont do anything } else { inTag = false; i++; } } if(!inTag) newString += oldString.charAt(i); } return newString; }[/code] from: [url=http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/JavaScript/Q_20580452.html]Strip HTML tags from data in database rows[/url] However, some quick tests show that while most browsers are OK wih this Internet Explorer/Windows messes up every now and again. Instead we need to run a regular expression which snips out anything within < and >: [code]function stripHTML(oldString) { return oldString.replace(/<[^>]*>/g, ""); }[/code] from: [url=http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/Q_20577613.html]Strip HTML tags from data in database rows[/url] --------------------------- Relevant links: [url=http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/JavaScript/Q_20580452.html]Strip HTML tags from data in database rows[/url] - string manipulation solution. [url=http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/Q_20577613.html]Strip HTML tags from data in database rows[/url] - regular expression solution ____________________ [internallink=4626]Emperor[/internallink] [small][i](Added by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Sun 10-Aug-2003)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Sun 10-Aug-2003)[/i][/small];) [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/6577]asela[/url] on 08-12-2007 09:54)[/small] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/6862]Irshad[/url] on 09-06-2008 11:24)[/small] Loading...
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