Remove HTML tags from a String
Is there a good way to remove HTML from a Java string? A simple regex like
replaceAll("\\<.*?>", "")
will work, but things like & wont be converted correctly and non-HTML between the two angle brackets will be removed (i.e. the .*? in the regex will disappear).
Answer
Use a HTML parser instead of regex. This is dead simple with Jsoup.
public static String html2text(String html) {
return Jsoup.parse(html).text();
}
Jsoup also supports removing HTML tags against a customizable whitelist, which is very useful if you want to allow only e.g. <b>, <i> and <u>.