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Clean Up HTML on the server side

Last post 10-19-2009, 4:26 PM by Adam. 5 replies.


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09-23-2009, 6:47 PM 55827

Big Kahuna
Joined on 06-03-2009
Posts 12

Clean Up HTML on the server side

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I found these in the help section but when I try to implement them in my code I get the following:

Object doesn't support this property or method: 'CleanUpHTMLCode'

Object doesn't support this property or method: 'CleanUpMicrosoftWordHTML'

You can teach your end users use the Clean Up HTML button (

) in Cute Editor to remove extraneous tags and streamline your HTML code.

But it's easy to make mistakes if your end users forget Clean Up HTML before saving the content into database.

Cute Editor provides two server side methods which can fix these mistakes automatically and tidy up sloppy editing into nicely layed out markup.

You can use Editor.CleanUpHTMLCode method to remove empty tags, combine nested FONT tags, and otherwise improve messy or unreadable HTML code.

You can aslo Editor.CleanUpMicrosoftWordHTML method to remove the extraneous HTML code generated by Microsoft Word.

Here's my object:

Dim editor
Set editor = New CuteEditor

editor.ID        = "event_comments"
editor.FilesPath      = "/includes/components/CuteEditor_Files"
editor.EditorWysiwygModeCss  = "/includes/components/CuteEditor_Files/style/text_editor.css"
editor.AutoConfigure     = "Simple"
editor.Width       = 733
editor.Height       = 500
editor.ThemeType       = "office2007"
editor.CleanUpHTMLCode    = "true"
editor.CleanUpMicrosoftWordHTML = "true"
editor.UsePhysicalFormattingTags = "true"
editor.Text        = theComments
editor.ImageGalleryPath    = thePath
editor.FlashGalleryPath    = thePath
editor.MediaGalleryPath    = thePath
editor.FilesGalleryPath    = thePath
editor.TemplateGalleryPath   = thePath
editor.Draw()

09-24-2009, 10:16 AM 55836 in reply to 55827

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
Posts 18,678

Re: Clean Up HTML on the server side

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You can use the following function:

Function CleanUpHTMLCode(HTMLstring)

dim cleanstring
set regex = new Regexp

cleanstring=HTMLstring

regex.pattern = "<\\?\??xml[^>]>"
regex.ignoreCase = true
regex.global = true
cleanstring = regex.Replace(cleanstring, "")

regex.pattern = "\s*mso-[^:]+:[^;""]+;?"
regex.ignoreCase = true
regex.global = true
cleanstring = regex.Replace(cleanstring, "")

regex.pattern = "<\/?\w+:[^>]*>"
regex.ignoreCase = true
regex.global = true
cleanstring = regex.Replace(cleanstring, "")

regex.pattern = "<\!--.*-->"
regex.ignoreCase = true
regex.global = true
cleanstring = regex.Replace(cleanstring, "")

regex.pattern = "[\”\“]"
regex.ignoreCase = true
regex.global = true
cleanstring = regex.Replace(cleanstring, """")

regex.pattern = "[\‘\’]"
regex.ignoreCase = true
regex.global = true
cleanstring = regex.Replace(cleanstring, "'")

regex.pattern = "<\\?\?xml[^>]*>"
regex.ignoreCase = true
regex.global = true
cleanstring = regex.Replace(cleanstring, "")

regex.pattern = "<span\s*[^>]*>\s* \s*<\/span>"
regex.ignoreCase = true
regex.global = true
cleanstring = regex.Replace(cleanstring, " ")

regex.pattern = "<span\s*[^>]*><\/span>"
regex.ignoreCase = true
regex.global = true
cleanstring = regex.Replace(cleanstring, "")

regex.pattern = "<(\w+)[^>]*\sstyle=""[^""]*DISPLAY\s?:\s?none(.*?)<\/\1>"
regex.ignoreCase = true
regex.global = true
cleanstring = regex.Replace(cleanstring, "")

CleanUpHTMLCode = cleanstring

set regex = nothing
End Function

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09-24-2009, 10:55 AM 55846 in reply to 55836

Big Kahuna
Joined on 06-03-2009
Posts 12

Re: Clean Up HTML on the server side

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Thanks but where to I add this function and what about the 'CleanUpMicrosoftWordHTML' option?

09-25-2009, 8:39 AM 55878 in reply to 55846

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
Posts 18,678

Re: Clean Up HTML on the server side

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Big Kahuna,

It's just a regular asp function. You can use it anywhere on your asp code.

10-16-2009, 5:09 PM 56448 in reply to 55878

ValleyHope
Joined on 06-12-2008
Posts 19

Re: Clean Up HTML on the server side

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is there a way to call the codeCleaner('Word') function instead of calling the CleanCode in the Toolbar.

I tried using your regex function and it still saved a lot of word formatting junk. Surely your codeCleaner function is more robust than the regex function you provided.

Here is my version of the regex function in C#:

public static string CleanWordHtml(string html)
{
String cleanstring = String.Empty;
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex regex;
cleanstring=html;
cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
@"<\\?\??xml[^>]>", "",
System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
@"\s*mso-[^:]+:[^;""]+;?", "",
System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
@"<\/?\w+:[^>]*>", "",
System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
@"<\!--.*-->", "",
System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
@"[\”\“]", "\"\"",
System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
@"[\‘\’]", "'",
System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
@"<\\?\?xml[^>]*>", "",
System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
@"<span\s*[^>]*>\s* \s*<\/span>", " ",
System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
@"<span\s*[^>]*><\/span>", "",
System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
@"<(\w+)[^>]*\sstyle=""[^""]*DISPLAY\s?:\s?none(.*?)<\/\1>", "",
System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
return cleanstring;
}

10-19-2009, 4:26 PM 56496 in reply to 56448

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
Posts 18,678

Re: Clean Up HTML on the server side

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ValleyHope:

is there a way to call the codeCleaner('Word') function instead of calling the CleanCode in the Toolbar.

I tried using your regex function and it still saved a lot of word formatting junk. Surely your codeCleaner function is more robust than the regex function you provided.

Here is my version of the regex function in C#:

public static string CleanWordHtml(string html)
    {
        String cleanstring = String.Empty;
        System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex regex;

        cleanstring=html;

        cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
                 @"<\\?\??xml[^>]>", "",
                 System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

        cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
                 @"\s*mso-[^:]+:[^;""]+;?", "",
                 System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

        cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
                 @"<\/?\w+:[^>]*>", "",
                 System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

        cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
                 @"<\!--.*-->", "",
                 System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

        cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
                 @"[\”\“]", "\"\"",
                 System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

        cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
                 @"[\‘\’]", "'",
                 System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

        cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
                 @"<\\?\?xml[^>]*>", "",
                 System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

        cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
                 @"<span\s*[^>]*>\s* \s*<\/span>", " ",
                 System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

        cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
                 @"<span\s*[^>]*><\/span>", "",
                 System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

        cleanstring = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(cleanstring,
                 @"<(\w+)[^>]*\sstyle=""[^""]*DISPLAY\s?:\s?none(.*?)<\/\1>", "",
                 System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

        return cleanstring;
}

If you are using .net version, you can use the following method:

Editor.CleanUpMicrosoftWordHTML Method

Use the Clean Up Word HTML function to remove the extraneous HTML code generated by Microsoft Word.