Andrew Gunn's Blog: Remove HTML from strings in C#.NET

Saturday, 7 June 2008

Remove HTML from strings in C#.NET

If you want to remove tags such as HTML or XML (basically anything between < and >) from a string, use this regular expression to replace them with another value (nothing in this example):

string regularExpresion = "<[^<>]*>";
 
string body = "<html>this<br />is<br />a<br />test</html>";
 
Regex regex = new Regex(regularExpresion, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Multiline);
 
string bodyNoHTML = regex.Replace(body, "").Trim();

Input:

<html>1<br />2<br />2<br />4</html>

Output:

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Greeat job!!! I just used this very successfully. thanks; 24 July 2008 at 05:24