In Prototype there is a method called stripTags(), it's source looks
like:
stripTags: function() {
return this.replace(/<\/?[^>]+>/gi, '');
}
To do it the jQuery way, I might consider doing something like this...
jQuery.fn.stripTags = function() {
return this.replaceWith( this.html().replace(/<\/?[^>]+>/gi, '') );
};
Hope this helps, Pax.
- Stan
On Sep 11, 11:08 am, AnandG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I retrieve a lot of strings from a JSON file. These strings can contain HTML
> tags.
>
> I would like to show the strings (for example a description of a product)
> but with a limit on the number of characters.
>
> So I have to count the number of characters and I would like to set a limit
> to 200 characters. But I want to exclude the
> characters of the HTML tags. The easiest method seems to me to strip HTML
> tags in the strings.
>
> I have searched in this forum and found some posts that deal with stripping
> out HTML tags:
>
> http://www.nabble.com/Strip-a-href-links-from-a-div-tf4372556s15494.h...
> Strip a href links from a div
>
> http://www.nabble.com/stripping-out-tags...-tf2583359s15494.html#a720...
> Stripping out tags
>
> But they all require that you send a HTML tag as a parameter. But that's
> difficult if i'm not sure which HTML tag is going to be used.
>
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