Program to remove HTML tags from a given String

Last Updated : 21 Dec, 2022

Given a string str that contains some HTML tags, the task is to remove all the tags present in the given string str.

Examples:

Input: str = "<div><b>Geeks for Geeks</b></div>" 
Output: Geeks for Geeks

Input: str = "<a href="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/">GFG</a>" 
Output: GFG

Approach:

The idea is to use Regular Expression to solve this problem. The following steps can be followed to compute the resultant string:

Get the string.
Since every HTML tags are enclosed in angular brackets(<>). Therefore use replaceAll() function in regex to replace every substring start with "<" and ending with ">" to an empty string.
The function is used as:

String str;
str.replaceAll("\\", "");

Below is the implementation of the above approach:

C++

// C++ program for the above approach
#include <iostream>
#include <regex>
using namespace std;

// Function to remove the HTML tags
// from the given string
void RemoveHTMLTags(string s)
{
    const regex pattern("\\<.*?\\>");

    // Use regex_replace function in regex
    // to erase every tags enclosed in <>
    s = regex_replace(s, pattern, "");

    // Print string after removing tags
    cout << s;

    return;
}

// Driver Code
int main()
{

    // Given String
    string str = "<div><b>Geeks for Geeks</b></div>";

    // Function call to print the
    // HTML string after removing tags
    RemoveHTMLTags(str);

    return 0;
}

// This code is contributed by yuvraj_chandra

Java

// Java program for the above approach

class GFG {

    // Function to remove the HTML tags
    // from the given tags
    static void RemoveHTMLTags(String str)
    {

        // Use replaceAll function in regex
        // to erase every tags enclosed in <>
        str = str.replaceAll("\\<.*?\\>", "");

        // Print string after removing tags
        System.out.println(str);
    }

    // Driver Code
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        String str;

        // Given String
        str = "<div><b>Geeks for Geeks</b></div>";

        // Function call to print the
        // HTML string after removing tags
        RemoveHTMLTags(str);
    }
}

Python3

# Python3 program for the 
# above approach 
import re

# Function to remove the HTML tags
# from the given tags
def RemoveHTMLTags(strr):
    
    # Print string after removing tags
    print(re.compile(r'<[^>]+>').sub('', strr))
    
# Driver code 
if __name__=='__main__':
    
    # Given String 
    strr = "<div><b>Geeks for Geeks</b></div>"
    
    # Function call to print the HTML 
    # string after removing tags
    RemoveHTMLTags(strr);
    
# This code is contributed by vikas_g

// C# program for the above approach 
using System; 

class GFG{ 

// Function to remove the HTML tags
// from the given tags
static void RemoveHTMLTags(String str)
{
    
    // Use replaceAll function in regex
    // to erase every tags enclosed in <>
    // str = Regex.Replace(str, "<.*?>", String.Empty)
    System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex rx = 
    new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("<[^>]*>");
    
    str = rx.Replace(str, "");

    // Print string after removing tags
    Console.WriteLine(str);
} 

// Driver code 
public static void Main(String []args) 
{ 
    String str;

    // Given String
    str = "<div><b>Geeks for Geeks</b></div>";

    // Function call to print the
    // HTML string after removing tags
    RemoveHTMLTags(str);
} 
}

// This code is contributed by vikas_g

JavaScript

<script>

// JavaScript program for the above approach


// Function to remove the HTML tags
// from the given string
function RemoveHTMLTags(s) {
    const pattern = new RegExp("\\<.*?\\>");

    // Use regex_replace function in regex
    // to erase every tags enclosed in <>
    s = new String(s).replace(pattern, "");

    // Print string after removing tags
    document.write(s);

    return;
}

// Driver Code


// Given String
let str = "<div><b>Geeks for Geeks</b></div>";

// Function call to print the
// HTML string after removing tags
RemoveHTMLTags(str);

</script>