Question

I’m importing data from 1 database to another. I’ve been requested to strip all HTML content, as its messy and not valid, and just keep the links

I currently use the following VB.NET function to strip all HTML tags from a string of content:

Public Shared Function StripHTML(ByVal htmlString As String) As String
    Dim pattern As String = "<(.|\n)*?>"
    Return Regex.Replace(htmlString, pattern, String.Empty)
End Function

I’m looking for a way of stripping all, but a (anchor) tags from the content.

For example if I have the following HTML content:

<table>
  <tr>
     <td>
         Lorem <a href="http://google.com">Ipsum</a>
     </td>
   </tr>
</table>

This will simply become:

Lorem <a href="http://google.com">Ipsum</a>

How can I do this?

Answer 1

I suggest you use Html Agility Pack

also check this question/answers: HTML Agility Pack strip tags NOT IN whitelist