remove html tags in the string..

Question

I need to remove all HTML tags in the strings expect <p>,<br>,<strong>,<li>,<ol>

Please provide a solution.
I have tried the code
Text = Regex.Replace(Text, "(?i)<(?!p|/p|br|/br|ul|/ul|li|/li|ol|/ol|strong|/strong|b|/b|em|/em|i|/i).*?>", String.Empty);

But it will also remove the less than and greater than cases on the string.

Answer 1

You could Parse your text in an XmlDocument object, and on the root element call InnerText to extract the text.

Answer 2

Hi @Ja Play

your answer is only acceptable for valid HTML Tags only.
But my text has invalid tags also. So give a better solution.

For Example
Text = "<p class = etc> Ponmani <br> some text <p> closed where 5 < 7 and 11 > 7 </p>"

I need this output.
<p>Ponmani <br> some text <p> closed where 5 < 7 and 11 > 7 </p>

But that will remove HTML tags as followed by
<p>Ponmani <br> some text <p> closed where 5 7 </p>