# Regex - Strip HTML into Plain Text with Formatting

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**Created:** [April 30, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/regex-strip-html-into-plain-text-with-formatting/259079 "2008-04-30T22:09:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/regex-strip-html-into-plain-text-with-formatting/259079/1 "2008-04-30T22:09:43Z")

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Hi,

Anyone have any ideas what regular expressions to use to strip an HTML document and format it so that when it is inserted into a dynamic text field it has line breaks / formatting etc.

Eg: Atm I have two regulard expressions, one that strips white space beween tags and one that strips tags… But then there is no line breaks between paragraphs etc.

What I need is to take the \<body\> of the HTML document, replace \<br /\>, \<br\>, \<p\> tags with  
replace \<li\> tags with etc Remove all tags (including images etc) and basically just end up with the formatted text of that HTML.

Cheers,  
Ryan