[thelist] RE: ColdFusion and checking HTML

[Saidi; Marwan]

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If you are looking for a ColdFusion solution, you may wish to start with the
Custom Tag cf_removeHTML available at the Allaire Developer exhchange. Here
is the link:
http://devex.allaire.com/developer/gallery/SearchResults.cfm?keywords=remove
+html
It won't do exactly what you want, but it may be a start. I use it to strip
out HTML from formatted content entries for the sake of including a little
blurb in user search results. Works great for me....

Marwan Saidi
Webmaster
CED - Concord IS
msaidi at ced-concord.com
407.741.8645


-----Original Message-----
From: jon steele [mailto:jjsteele22 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 11:23 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] RE: ColdFusion and checking HTML


Thanks Josh,

Is there a way to strip all html tags from a string (remove everything
between '<' and '>'? That is, only leave the text? Maybe I can alter
that to strip &nbsp; and leave <img> tags, then Trim it and check that
string's length. How could I get rid of the HTML tags?

Thanks,
Jon.


Joshua's Message:

Hmmm... interesting problem.  Unfortunately, the algorithm you 
mentioned
will not be enough to solve the problem, though it will get close.  If 
you
are happy with close, then yes, the loop can be constructed.  It'll be 
slow
as h**l in ColdFusion, but it can be done.

Try converting the string to an array using > is the delimiter.  Then 
loop
through the array checking the items against your checklist.

-joshua


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