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Revision: 5314
at February 28, 2008 05:19 by localhorst
Updated Code 
function cleanHTML($html) {
/// <summary>
/// Removes all FONT and SPAN tags, and all Class and Style attributes.
/// Designed to get rid of non-standard Microsoft Word HTML tags.
/// </summary>
// start by completely removing all unwanted tags

$html = ereg_replace("<(/)?(font|span|del|ins)[^>]*>","",$html);

// then run another pass over the html (twice), removing unwanted attributes

$html = ereg_replace("<([^>]*)(class|lang|style|size|face)=(\"[^\"]*\"|'[^']*'|[^>]+)([^>]*)>","<\\1>",$html);
$html = ereg_replace("<([^>]*)(class|lang|style|size|face)=(\"[^\"]*\"|'[^']*'|[^>]+)([^>]*)>","<\\1>",$html);

return $html
}

Revision: 5313
at February 27, 2008 13:49 by localhorst
Initial Code 
function cleanHTML($html) {
/// <summary>
/// Removes all FONT and SPAN tags, and all Class and Style attributes.
/// Designed to get rid of non-standard Microsoft Word HTML tags.
/// </summary>
// start by completely removing all unwanted tags

$html = ereg_replace("<(/)?(font|span|del|ins)[^>]*>","",$html);

// then run another pass over the html (twice), removing unwanted attributes

$html = ereg_replace("<([^>]*)(class|lang|style|size|face)=(\"[^\"]*\"|'[^']*'|[^>]+)([^>]*)>","<\\1>",$html);
$html = ereg_replace("<([^>]*)(class|lang|style|size|face)=(\"[^\"]*\"|'[^']*'|[^>]+)([^>]*)>","<\\1>",$html);

// sample word html <p class="aaa" style="background:dot">abc</p> will return <p > </p>
}
Initial URL 
http://tim.mackey.ie/CommentView,guid,2ece42de-a334-4fd0-8f94-53c6602d5718.aspx
Initial Description 
The PHP Code appears in Post Comments
Initial Title 
Clean Word HTML using Regular Expressions
Initial Tags 
php
Initial Language 
PHP