Remove HTML entities from text

17/10/2019 12:33

Sometimes we get text from user with html formatting (e. g. when text was copy pasted). Following method shoud remove this formatting

using System;

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

using System.Web;

 

public static string CleanFromHtml(string input)
{
var tagsRemoved = Regex.Replace(input, "<.*?>", String.Empty);
string normalString = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(tagsRemoved);
 
return normalString;
}
public static string CleanFromHtml(string input)
{
var tagsRemoved = Regex.Replace(input, "<.*?>", String.Empty);
string normalString = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(tagsRemoved);
 
return normalString;
}