Maintaining styling while cleaning html using JSoup

Question

I am very new to JSoup. And, I am using the following code to clean the html:

    String clean = Jsoup.clean(html, Whitelist.relaxed());

I am getting the the required html but all the styling such as bold, italics etc. are missing.

How i can maintain the html code with its respective styling using JSoup? If there are any other library to do so, please recommend me one?

Answer 1

When you use Jsoup.clean(html, Whitelist.relaxed()),

Whitelist.relaxed()

Directly from the documentation,

This whitelist allows a full range of text and structural body HTML: a, b, blockquote, br, caption, cite, code, col, colgroup, dd, dl, dt, em, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, i, img, li, ol, p, pre, q, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, u, ul

if you want to make allow more elements (i.e. style atributes) add them to the Whitelist instance to allow through it. You can use the following methods from Whitelist API

addTags(java.lang.String...)
addAttributes(java.lang.String, java.lang.String...)

Please read the documentation of Whitelist from JSOUP library.