How to remove HTML element of String? [duplicate]

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I want to remove HTML of string in Java.

<hr><b><strong>Task Details</strong></b><hr><b>Date Created: </b> 01/06/2014 07:55pm<br><b>Date Modified: </b> 01/06/2014 07:55pm<br><b>Assigned to: </b> Administrator<br><b>Created By: </b> Administrator<br><b>Status: </b> Not Started<br><b>Description: </b> Test Description<br>.

Above is my string and I want to remove HTML tags.

Are these HTML tags? The input does not seem to have HTML tags. — Ankur Shanbhag
– Ankur Shanbhag, Commented Jan 9, 2014 at 6:59
the question is not clear enough. What string are you talking about and what HTML tag ? Can you please elaborate the question and mention what is it that you exactly want to achieve? — Hrishikesh
– Hrishikesh, Commented Jan 9, 2014 at 6:59
'Java' is to 'JavaScript' as 'Car' is to 'Carpet'. So which language are you using? — Andrew Thompson
– Andrew Thompson, Commented Jan 9, 2014 at 7:15
I'm just going to leave both [java] and [javascript] in the question until you figure out which language you're using... please retag it accordingly. — BoltClock
– BoltClock, Commented Mar 10, 2014 at 4:09

Lijo · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-09 06:59:28Z

4

Maybe this will work:

String noHTMLString = htmlString.replaceAll("\\<.*?>","");

It uses regular expressions to remove all HTML tags in a string.

More specifically, it removes all XML like tags from a string. So <1234> will be removed even though it is not a valid HTML tag. But its good for most intents and purpouses.

Hope this helps.

This is actually dead simple with Jsoup.

public static String html2text(String html) {
    return Jsoup.parse(html).text();
}

answered Jan 9, 2014 at 6:59

Lijo

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Andres F. Over a year ago

-1 The first part of your answer up to the "Hope this helps" is copied verbatim and unattributed from this earlier answer. Unless you're the same poster, that's a big netiquette no-no.

Jeevan Mysore · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-22 12:23:56Z

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You can use Jsoup library for it.

String str="<h3>My Text</h3>";
System.out.println(Jsoup.parse(str).text());

The above code strip all htms tags and give text left as output

answered Dec 22, 2014 at 12:23

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