To remove just the tags, and not the content, which is how PHP’s strip_tags() behaves, you can do: var whitelist = “p”; // for more tags use the multiple selector, e.g. “p, img” $(“#text *”).not(whitelist).each(function() { var content = $(this).contents(); $(this).replaceWith(content); }); Try it out here.
Not amazing, but works. function html_cut($text, $max_length) { $tags = array(); $result = “”; $is_open = false; $grab_open = false; $is_close = false; $in_double_quotes = false; $in_single_quotes = false; $tag = “”; $i = 0; $stripped = 0; $stripped_text = strip_tags($text); while ($i < strlen($text) && $stripped < strlen($stripped_text) && $stripped < $max_length) { $symbol … Read more
As its name may suggest, strip_tags should remove all HTML tags. The only way we can proof it is by analyzing the source code. The next analysis applies to a strip_tags(‘…’) call, without a second argument for whitelisted tags. First at all, some theory about HTML tags: a tag starts with a < followed by … Read more
The solutions in the answer linked to by @sparkymat generally require either regex – which is an error-prone approach – or installing a third-party library such as jsoup or jericho. A better solution on Android devices is just to make use of the Html.fromHtml() function: public String stripHtml(String html) { if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.N) { … Read more