Stripping HTML tags out to leave text only.

PJ03029174

Hi, I have a personal localhost website and have HTML stored in one of my fields from the summernote editor. Is there anything already available to strip HTML tags out and render the field as Text without the Tags in the datatable?

I've started using the render ellipsis plugin which is cool for this field but the tooltip is pretty hard to read with the html tags present (as is the data in this particular column on the datatable)

colin

Hi @PJ03029174 ,

There's not a renderer for that, but something like this works 99% of the time - see "Tiger Nixon" in the HTML.

Cheers,

Colin

PJ03029174

Thanks Colin, that looks great. I'm using the

"render": $.fn.dataTable.render.ellipsis( 50,true,false )

code and have put

shortened = shortened.replace( /<.*?>/g, '' );

into the fn.dataTable.render.ellipsis() function.

Do you happen to know if I can use this code on the tooltip output? the tags are successfully removed from the datatable but when I hover over an ellipse value the tooltip still displays the tags.

Thanks a lot for the help. Pete

colin

Hi @PJ03029174 .

Would you be able to change my example in that last post to show what you're got and done so far - it would help to understand what you have,

Cheers,

Colin

PJ03029174

Hi Colin

I cloned your example and updated with my code, here

Thanks so much for the help!

kthorngren

Is this what you are looking for?
http://live.datatables.net/wolojoza/1/edit

Kevin

PJ03029174

That worked a treat, thank you Kevin