Takes dirty dirty (X)HTML and produces nice clean XHTML

It will; * fix self closing tags * lower-case tags * remove non-standard attributes * remove in-line style attributes * remove in-line event attributes * optionally remove other attributes * tidy unnecessary white space and new lines * remove comments * remove proprietary word formatting tags * replace tags e.g. i=>em * optionally leave css classes in place * format and indent html

Options

| Name | Description | Example Value | |:---------|:----------------|:------------------| | bodyOnly | clean the body tag only | true|false | | allowedTags | only allow tags in this array, (white list), contents still rendered | ["p","em"] | | removeTags | remove tags in this array, (black list), contents still rendered | ["strong"] | | allowedAttributes | array of attributes to allow on all tags or those specified | [["id"], ["style", ["p", "dl"]]] | | removeAttrs | array of attributes to remove on all tags | [class] | | allowedClasses | array of allowed classes | ["left","right"] | | format | format html | true|false | | formatIndent | indent starting point | 2 | | replace | replace matching tags with another tag, match by string or regex | [["b", "big"], "strong"] | | replaceStyles | styles to replace with elements | [[/font-weight:\s*bold/i, "strong"], [/regex/, replacement]] | | allowComments | allow or remove comments, false by default | true|false | | allowEmpty | allow the tags in this array to be empty | ["p"] |

Example

``` $.htmlClean("

Nested P Test", {format:true});

=>

Nested P Test

```

Demo http://www.antix.co.uk/Content/Demos/jQuery-htmlClean/Test.htm

jQuery Plug-in page http://plugins.jquery.com/project/htmlClean

1.4.0

added allowEmpty to options, allows empty tags mentioned better formatting other bug fixes

1.3.0

added allowedAttributes option a list of the attributes allowed on a tag in addition to the internal defaults notRenderedTags removed functionality covered by removeTags

1.2.2

replaceStyles added for replacement of bold, italic, super and sub styles on an element this is to add more robust style/tag replacement

Multiple style matches supported, inline elements are replaced by the first match, block-level elements are retained

1.2.0

Black and white lists added, see allowedTags and removeTags above Thanks to thanks to David Wartian (Dwartian) for suggestion and code

1.1.0

Now you can specify css classes that you want to retain Also, it formats and indents the cleaned html, default is false

1.0.1

Trim start fix

Whitespace on inline elements fixed

1.0.0

Bug fixes for greedy attribute selection and order of attribute removal

Trim functions: |$.htmlClean.trim()|Trims a string start and end| |:-----------------|:---------------------------| |$.htmlClean.trimStart()|Trims the start of a string | |$.htmlClean.trimEnd()|Trims the end of a string | |$.htmlClean.trimStartIndex()|Gets the index of a trim start| |$.htmlClean.trimEndIndex()|Gets the index of a trim end|

nb These functions do not use regex to trim and are therefore safe to use in a regex.exec loop

0.9.3

Now cleans web kit span style tags <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> => <strong>

jQuery function added $("#SomeElement").htmlClean()