Clean HTML from Pasted Content: Strip Styles and Tags
Remove inline styles, font tags, and bloated markup from copied web content. How to sanitize paste input in rich text editors and CMS platforms.
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Clean HTML Pasted Into CMS Fields: Remove Tags and Formatting Every CMS developer has seen this problem: a content editor pastes text from Microsoft Word or Google Docs into a rich text field, and the resulting HTML is a nightmare. A single paragraph of text becomes hundreds of lines of XML-wrapped markup full of inline styles, class names, layers, Office namespace elements, and invisible formatting directives. This guide explains where the garbage comes from, how to sanitize it, and how to strip it down to clean, manageable plain text. --- Where the Garbage Comes From Microsoft Word HTML When you copy from Word and paste into a browser's contentEditable area (what most WYSIWYG editors use), the clipboard contains both plain text and the Word-generated HTML. Most editors accept the HTML…
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