Home/ Questions/Q 7843447
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-02T16:33:04+00:00

I have a pretty simple reg ex question. My HTML tag looks like the

  • 0

I have a pretty simple reg ex question. My HTML tag looks like the following:

<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple>

I want to clear all attributes and just return <body>

There are a number of other HTML tags whose attributes I’d like to clear so I hope to reuse the solution. How to do this with a regular expression?
Thanks,
B.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Use HtmlAgilityPack like this:

        public string RemoveAllAttributesFromEveryNode(string html)
    {
        var htmlDocument = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument();
        htmlDocument.LoadHtml(html);
        foreach (var eachNode in htmlDocument.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//*"))
            eachNode.Attributes.RemoveAll();
        html = htmlDocument.DocumentNode.OuterHtml;
        return html;
    }

    Call this method passing the html that you want to remove all attributes from.

    xpath will help you a lot with this.

    Don’t use a regex for html files that may contain scripts, as in Javascript, the characters < and > are not tag delimiters but operators. A Regexp will probably match these operators as if they were tags, which will completely mess up the document.

    • 0