How to remove text formatting?

[ailinykh]

Hello, everybody!

I have text with html formatting (originally it was created by RichTextArea). I want to show it as a plain text with no formatting. This is exactly the same as RichTextArea.ExtendedFormat.removeFormat does. But I want to do it programmatically. What is the best way?

Thank you,

  Andrey

[Thomas Broyer]

It's actually as easy as:

    DivElement elt = Document.get().createDivElement();

    elt.setInnerHTML( SimpleHtmlSanitizer.sanitizeHtml(myHtmlString) );

    String plainTextString = elt.getInnerText();

Or you could of course use code similar to the SimpleHtmlSanitizer that strings *all* the HTML tags, instead of just the non-white-listed ones; that would save you from the setInnerHTML/getInnerText dance so could possibly perform better (and the "sanitizer" code would probably be simpler as well)

[ailinykh]

Thank you! 

This is what I need.

Andrey