I wish it was that easy. A regex was my first thought but it only works for my simple example.
You are correct, I should have provided a more detailed example. Basically, the method should remove all extraneous HTML from a string. The resulting HTML string is to be displayed in a div, so trailing newlines, br tags, whitespace etc. need to be stripped. If the complete string is inside a p tag then that p tag should be removed. This extra stuff is added by pretty much any HTML edit control we can get our hands on, free or commercial. So in a nutshell: input: "<p><br> <br /></p>" & vbTab & vbCrLf & " <p><p>this is a test</p>" & vbCrLf & " <p>It really is</p> </p> <p><br><br /></p> " & vbTab & vbCrLf output: "<p>this is a test</p>" & vbCrLf & " <p>It really is</p>" logic: The first p block should be removed because it contains no real textual information. Leaving vbTab & vbCrLf & " <p><p>this is a test</p>" & vbCrLf & " <p>It really is</p> </p> <p><br><br /></p> " & vbTab & vbCrLf The tabs and linefeeds should be removed because they have no real meaning in HTML. Leaving " <p><p>this is a test</p>" & vbCrLf & " <p>It really is</p> </ p> <p><br><br /></p> " Again the whitespace should be trimmed: Leaving "<p><p>this is a test</p>" & vbCrLf & " <p>It really is</p> </ p> <p><br><br /></p>" The last p block should be removed because it contains no real textual information. Leaving "<p><p>this is a test</p>" & vbCrLf & " <p>It really is</p> </ p> " Again the whitespace should be trimmed: Leaving "<p><p>this is a test</p>" & vbCrLf & " <p>It really is</p> </ p>" Having the whole HTML block inside of p tags in a div is useless so these extra p tags should be removed: Leaving "<p>this is a test</p>" & vbCrLf & " <p>It really is</p> " Finally the whitespace should be trimmed: Leaving "<p>this is a test</p>" & vbCrLf & " <p>It really is</p>" I know this must be possible and there is surely an easy way to do it but nothing seems to work. It is a much more complex problem than it first appears :o( --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DotNetDevelopment, VB.NET, C# .NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, XML, XML Web Services,.NET Remoting" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DotNetDevelopment You may subscribe to group Feeds using a RSS Feed Reader to stay upto date using following url <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/DotNetDevelopment";> http://feeds.feedburner.com/DotNetDevelopment</a> -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
