html-to-formatted-text
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Convert HTML to formatted text
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html-to-formatted-text
What
Converts HTML to formatted plain text.
From:
"<p>Some text.</p><p>More text.</p><div>Even more text.</div>"
To:
Some text.
More text.
Even more text.
Usage
Node
Installation
npm install --save html-to-formatted-text
const htmlToFormattedText = require("html-to-formatted-text");
htmlToFormattedText("<p>foo</p><p>bar</p>"); // Output: "foo\nbar"
ES6
// ES6
import htmlToFormattedText from "html-to-formatted-text";
htmlToFormattedText("<p>foo</p><p>bar</p>"); // Output: "foo\nbar"
Vanilla JS / UMD
<!-- latest version -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/html-to-formatted-text/dist/index.umd.min.js"></script>
<!-- or for a specific version -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/index.umd.min.js"></script>
<script>
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () {
window.htmlToFormattedText('<p>foo</p><p>bar</p>') // Output: "foo\nbar"
});
</script>
Why
You might have HTML that you want to display as text.
One use case might be that a user adds HTML via an online editor TinyMCE and you want to display this as plain text somewhere else.
Contributing
- Create an issue on Github
- Fork project
- Make changes then use
npm run commit
to make commits - Create a pull request