Remove HTML tags from a String

Question

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 1

Here is another way to do it:

public static String removeHTML(String input) {
    int i = 0;
    String[] str = input.split("");

    String s = "";
    boolean inTag = false;

    for (i = input.indexOf("<"); i < input.indexOf(">"); i++) {
        inTag = true;
    }
    if (!inTag) {
        for (i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
            s = s + str[i];
        }
    }
    return s;
}

Answer 2

ex: classeString.replaceAll("\<(/?[^\>]+)\>", "\ ").replaceAll("\s+", " ").trim()

Answer 3

Here is one more variant of how to replace all(HTML Tags | HTML Entities | Empty Space in HTML content)

content.replaceAll("(<.*?>)|(&.*?;)|([ ]{2,})", ""); where content is a String.