Sunday 15 September 2019

Remove HTML tags in a cell by a regex

The following Google Apps Script is designed to remove all HTML tags within the content of a cell by using a regular expression (regex). It was developed as a more advanced version of this HTML email body blog post in that it could dynamically remove various instances of HTML tags used (eg <font></font>, <br />, <strong></strong>) all in one go.
Screenshot of cell containing HTML tags and text
Screenshot of cell containing HTML tags and text

The regex uses 'replace' to identify the HTML tags and remove then (or technically replace them with nothing):
var cleanContent = cell.replace(/<[^>]+>/mg,"");

Regex - remove HTML tags.xlsx

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