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Gursimrat
Leader
11 years ago

Rich text not coming through, any alternative for this?

I am creating a widget which pulls through all the recent activity for the commnity via recent threads API. This is working fine for the plain text but I just checked it with putting in some images a...
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Gursimrat
Leader
11 years ago
Is it possible to display only text without using regex? Is there a way the returned result is not in HTML format and just displays the plain text so I don't have to use the regex.
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PaoloT
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
11 years ago

Hi,

 

you can either create and call an endpoint to do the filtering for you using one of the stripping tools provided in the utils context object , or call the rest API directly and implement the HTML stripping logic in your application.

 

Hope this helps,

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    Gursimrat
    Leader
    11 years ago
    I have used the below regex and this is working fine

    ?replace("<[^>]*>","", "r")

    Do you think this could break?