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Asked: 2026-05-23T11:08:15+00:00

I have a question about parsing text and removing unwanted html parts. I know

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I have a question about parsing text and removing unwanted html parts.
I know functions like – strip_tags() which will remove all the tags, but the problem is, that this function leaves the “inside text” there.

Let me show you an example, we have a text:

Hello, how are you? <a href="">Link to my website</a> __Here continues html tags, links, images__

What I want is to remove the whole part, where html resides. Not only tags, but also text (like “Link to my website” above).

Is there any efficient way, function that I missed?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try this:

    function removeTags($str) {
    $result = '';

    $xpath = new DOMXPath(DOMDocument::loadHTML(sprintf('<body>%s</body>', $str)));
    foreach ($xpath->query('//body/text()') as $textNode) {
        $result .= $textNode->nodeValue;
    }

    return $result;
}

echo removeTags(
    'Hello, how are you? <a href="">Link to my website</a> __Here continues html <span>tags</span>, links, images__'
);

    Output:

    Hello, how are you? __Here continues html , links, images__
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