How do I remove tag and its content from HTML using php

Question

Below is the text I need to remove

tags from

 Addiction, stress and subjective wellbeing
 
 The need and signi         


        

Answer 1

Try:

If you want to remove <p> tag only

$html = "
<p> Addiction, stress and subjective wellbeing</p> 
<p> The need and significance of traditional shop lot pavements town</p> 
<p> The role of wage and benefit in engaging employee commitment</p>
";

echo strip_tags($html);

If you want to remove <p> tags and its content

$html = preg_replace('#\<p>[{\w},\s\d"]+\</p>#', "", $html);

Answer 2

echo "<div id=\"main_content\">" . strip_tags($row[main_content]) . "</div>";

Answer 3

You must use this regular expression to catch <p> tag and all of its content:

'/<p\b[^>]*>(.*?)<\/p>/i'

Working example to catch and remove <p> tag and all of its content:

$title = "<div>Text to keep<p class='classExample'>Text to remove</p></div>";
$result = preg_replace('/<p\b[^>]*>(.*?)<\/p>/i', '', $title);
echo $result;

Please see live demo on Codepad

If you want to use regular expressions to parse HTML - then you will not be able to do this.

Read more about your matter here: How do you parse and process HTML/XML in PHP?

Answer 4

$text = '<p>Test paragraph.</p> <a href="#fragment">Other text</a>';
echo strip_tags($text);
echo "\n";

// Allow p and a tag
echo strip_tags($text, '<p><a>');

Answer 5

just to remove p tags you can do this

$text=str_ireplace('<p>','',$text);
$text=str_ireplace('</p>','',$text);    

Answer 6

If you just need to strip all the markup, go with strip_tags().