How Can I strip HTML from Text in .NET?

Question

I have an asp.net web page that has a TinyMCE box. Users can format text and send the HTML to be stored in a database.

On the server, I would like to take strip the h

Answer 1

I downloaded the HtmlAgilityPack and created this function:

string StripHtml(string html)
{
    // create whitespace between html elements, so that words do not run together
    html = html.Replace(">","> ");

    // parse html
    var doc = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument();   
    doc.LoadHtml(html);

    // strip html decoded text from html
    string text = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(doc.DocumentNode.InnerText);   

    // replace all whitespace with a single space and remove leading and trailing whitespace
    return Regex.Replace(text, @"\s+", " ").Trim();
}