That's what I thought. I would have to put all the tags in there I want to remove like div, strong, font, etc...
Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Alkema [mailto:paulalkemadesi...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 10:57 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Remove html characters Try this... <cfset html = '<p><a href="">test with link</a> </p>' > <cfset withoutHtml = REReplaceNoCase(html,"<a .*(href=['""]?)([^'"" ]+)['"" ][^>]+>([^<]+)</a>","\3: \2","all") > <cfset withoutHtml = REReplaceNoCase(withoutHtml,"<p[^>]*>",Chr(10),"all") > <cfset withoutHtml = REReplaceNoCase(withoutHtml,"<[^>]+>","","all") > <cfoutput>#withoutHtml#</cfoutput> Paul Alkema http://Paulalkema.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Rick Sanders [mailto:c...@webenergy.ca] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 9:38 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Remove html characters Hey all, What's the best way to remove html characters and make something plain text? reReplace? Thanks, Rick Webenergy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333775 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm