how to convert HTML text to plain text? [duplicate]

Question

friend's I have to parse the description from url,where parsed content have few html tags,so how can I convert it to plain text.

Answer 1

Yes, Jsoup will be the better option. Just do like below to convert the whole HTML text to plain text.

String plainText= Jsoup.parse(yout_html_text).text(); 

Answer 2

Just getting rid of HTML tags is simple:

// replace all occurrences of one or more HTML tags with optional // whitespace inbetween with a single space character  String strippedText = htmlText.replaceAll("(?s)<[^>]*>(\\s*<[^>]*>)*", " "); 

But unfortunately the requirements are never that simple:

Usually, <p> and <div> elements need a separate handling, there may be cdata blocks with > characters (e.g. javascript) that mess up the regex etc.