Close Forgotten HTML Tags Easily In User HTML Input

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        If you let users type raw HTML into your input boxes, they will inevitably forget to close some of their tags from time to time. Close any forgotten tags with this:

h1 = {}
h2 = {}
code.scan(/\<([^\>\s\/]+)[^\>\/]*?\>/).each { |t| h1[t[0]] ? h1[t[0]] += 1 : h1[t[0]] = 1 }
code.scan(/\<\/([^\>\s\/]+)[^\>]*?\>/).each { |t| h2[t[0]] ? h2[t[0]] += 1 : h2[t[0]] = 1 }
h1.each {|k,v| code += "</#{k}>" * (h1[k] - h2[k].to_i) if h2[k].to_i < v }

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• html
• Ruby

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Snippets Manager replied on Wed, 2007/11/07 - 9:20pm

the only problem with this is that it doesn't close the tags in the correct order, which can cause problems. without going overboard, this works a bit better: def close_tags(text) open_tags = [] text.scan(/\<([^\>\s\/]+)[^\>\/]*?\>/).each { |t| open_tags.unshift(t) } text.scan(/\<\/([^\>\s\/]+)[^\>]*?\>/).each { |t| open_tags.slice!(open_tags.index(t)) } open_tags.each {|t| text += "" } text end

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