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Regular Expression to remove JavaScript / CSS from HTML source

So far I have a regex that I use to strip the HTML tags from a page however this doesnt work correctly with CSS and JavaScript...

Im looking for a regular expression to remove script (javascript, etc) and styles from the html source i have in a local string variable

examples of what i need to remove:

[style type="text/css"] blah [/style]
[style] blah [/style]
[script language="JavaScript"] blah [/script]
[script type="text/javascript"] blah [/script]

is this possible w/ regexp?

mcainc

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i'm using vb.net by the way (that is if there is a different method for doing this)

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mcainc

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i didn't know i could post < > on here so i just used [ ] instead...

mcainc

ASKER

hmm.. can you clean this up a bit with <> tags

ozo

"<style.*?</style>"
"<script.*?</script>

mcainc

ASKER

hmm, this doesn't seem to work:

here is the function returning a string

Public Function RemoveStyleBlocks(ByVal strSource As String) As String
Return Regex.Replace(strSource, "<style.*?</style>", "")
End Function

i have a function that works for removing html tags for your reference, perhaps something else is required in your script/style regex?

Public Function RemoveHTMLTags(ByVal strSource As String) As String
Return Regex.Replace(strSource, "<[^>]*>", "")
End Function

ozo

if strSource spans multiple lines
Regex.Replace(strSource,"<style.*?</style>", "",RegexOptions.Singleline)

mcainc

ASKER

ah great, that appears to work perfectly... thank you!