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Html Stripping

08.01.2005

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        Stripping html tags, with an optional array of tags to be preserved.

	def strip_html(str, allow = ['a','img','p','br','i','b','u','ul','li'])
		str = str.strip || ''
		allow_arr = allow.join('|') << '|\/'
		str.gsub(/<(\/|\s)*[^(#{allow_arr})][^>]*>/,'')
	end

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Comments

Snippets Manager replied on Thu, 2006/05/18 - 11:47pm

It won't strip tags.

Snippets Manager replied on Thu, 2006/05/18 - 11:47pm

joanofarctan's snippet doesn't work. For example, it won't strip

 tags, because they contain the letter 'p'.  Her [^(#{allow_arr}] is not working the way it was probably intended to.  Here is a slightly improved version.


    def self.strip_html(str, allow = ['a','img','p','br','i','b','u','ul','li'])
        str.strip!
        allow_arr = allow.join('\\b|') << '|/'
        tag_pat = %r,<(?:(?:/?)|(?:\s*))(?!#{allow_arr}).*?>,
        str.gsub(tag_pat, ' ')
    end

Snippets Manager replied on Mon, 2012/05/07 - 2:13pm

Coming from a PHP background, I've been looking for a way to efficiently do what the PHP strip_tags function does and this looks perfect. Thanks MUCH!