How can I strip HTML tags from a string in ASP NET

Question

Using ASP.NET, how can I strip the HTML tags from a given string reliably (i.e. not using regex)? I am looking for something like PHP's strip_tags.

Example:

<ul><li>Hello</li></ul>

Output:

"Hello"

I am trying not to reinvent the wheel, but I have not found anything that meets my needs so far.

Answer 1

Hello @Kartik,

If it is just stripping all HTML tags from a string, this works reliably with regex as well. Replace:

<[^>]*(>|$)

with the empty string, globally. Don't forget to normalize the string afterwards, replacing:

[\s\r\n]+

with a single space, and trimming the result. Optionally replace any HTML character entities back to the actual characters.

Hope it helps!!

Thank!!