Stripping all HTML Characters using VB.Net

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Fred Mastro
Fred Mastropasqua

Mar 22

Mar 22 Stripping all HTML Characters using VB.Net

This is actually pretty easy and I had needed to use it on a page where I wanted to use a ToolTip of the contents of an editor which stored the HTML of the content...

Using Regular Expression we can strip off the HTML tags.

   1: Dim ContentDataStrippedOfHTML As StringContentDataStrippedOfHTML = Regex.Replace(SourceOriginalDataStringHere, "<(.|\n)*?>", String.Empty) 
   2:  

Right to the point.