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Using Gsub With Blocks To Strip Attributes From HTML Tags

03.18.2007
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http://henrik.nyh.se/2007/03/03/using-gsub-with-blocks-to-strip-attributes-from-html-tags/

html = 'Getting <a href="#" id="foo">rid</a> of <code id="bar">id
 attributes, but not in text: id="not this".' 

html.gsub(/<(.*?)>/) {|innards| innards.gsub(/ id=("|').*?\1/, '') }

# => Getting <a href="#">rid</a> of 
id
 attributes, but not in text: id="not this".
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