who claims to be a genious???

**hedlikeahole** · 10-14-2005 08:51 AM

hi, i have some html stored in a database which is sent directly from a html editor on a page, when displaying the html i want to display it without any of the styling which is inside the html tags. is there a way of ignoring all of the html tags in a certain block, whilst still showing what is inbetween them. eg:

<span style="font-size:7em">TEXT</span>

i want to ignore the tags and display the word 'TEXT' as the default size, the html will be put in by somebody else, theres no way of overruling every possible thing they can do, that was only a simple example. im using cute editor, the user can make tables, put images in, anything really, i just want to disable all tags

????

**JPnyc** · 10-14-2005 09:01 AM

You'd need to write a function with a serverside language that pulls the info from the database, parses it, and removes all tags, then outputs the page without them. No small feat. What serverside languages does your host support and what database is being used?

**hedlikeahole** · 10-14-2005 09:26 AM

genious, put your fore-finger on your forehead and call ureself a genious!
thanks

**Fang** · 10-14-2005 09:41 AM

Server-side is best, but with JavaScript

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>rip HTML</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<script type="text/javascript">
onload=function() {
var str=document.getElementById('user').innerHTML;
var newStr=str.replace(/(<[^<>]*>)/gi, "");
document.getElementById('user').innerHTML=newStr;
}
</script>

</head>
<body>
<p>User's comments</p>
<div id="user" style="border:1px solid red;">
	<span style="font-size:7em">TEXT</span>
	<p>bla bla</p>
	<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
		<tr><td>xxxx</td></tr>
	</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>

**NogDog** · 10-14-2005 10:58 AM

If you can use PHP for server-side scripting, it has a handy built-in function called htmlentities() that will do this for you.

PS: I'm genius enough to know that there is no "o" in "genius".

**fab0990** · 10-14-2005 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by NogDog

PS: I'm genius enough to know that there is no "o" in "genius".

lol

**hedlikeahole** · 10-17-2005 03:54 AM

Originally Posted by NogDog

PS: I'm genius enough to know that there is no "o" in "genius".

just testing!

**hedlikeahole** · 10-17-2005 03:56 AM

im using asp.net and an sql server database, can i put anything into the stored procedure to cut out anything inside <> tags which are returned from the select statement??

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