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Asked: 2026-06-09T18:05:32+00:00

Possible Duplicate: Allow user submitted HTML in PHP I’m building a small tool that

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Allow user submitted HTML in PHP

I’m building a small tool that publishes web articles to our website. A lot of the times our users are copying and pasting directly from Microsoft Word into my wysiwyg editor. The editor copies all of the Word hidden tags.

My main issue I am trying to address is removing <span>. Word often throws in a lot of style attributes after the <span> tag. For example: <span style=" Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">.

Is there a way to remove the entire span tag? Regex?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you’re set on using a regex for it you could try something like 

    "/^(<span)+([A-Za-z0-9=,;:])*(>)+$/"

    Where the (<span)+(>)+ catches both opening and closing tags and the middle section should catch any attributes declared inline. Then you could use php preg_replace to replace all occurrences of this pattern with empty quotes or something like that.

    http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php

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