Clean HTML table of formatting?

Question

Anyone know of a way to clean a <table> of all formatting leaving just the basic tags and text?

I have tries Komposer which was useless and even added more formatting rubbish of its own. I them tried Aptana but that only seems to be a text editor, again no use at all.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

When you would like to clean HTML tables (e.g. when you copy them from Word or Excel to an HTML editor) you can use the online Table Cleaner at https://www.r2h.nl/tablecleaner

I strips all the formatiing and returns only clean HTML code so will you have a table without any styling.

Answer 2

How about using a text editor that supports find and replace using regular expressions (such as Notepad++) to remove the unwanted attributes using one regex, and the font tags using another regex?

To match the attributes you need to remove the following regex should do the job:

( style| class| height| width)=("[A-Za-z0-9:;_ -]*"|'[A-Za-z0-9:;_ -]*'|[A-Za-z0-9:;_-]*)

To match font tags, try

<font.*font>

(I've tested these regular expressions with http://gskinner.com/RegExr/).

Edit

It turns out that Notepad++ does not support the logical OR operator in regular expressions. An alternative would be to use another text editor that does, or to write a small app/script to perform the replacements.