This is fairly simple one especially after my last blog. But I bet this may be more required than what I wrote for my previous blog.
In this blog I am going to discuss the following
- How to remove HTML tags from a string in Canvas apps?
- How to remove XML tags from a string in Canvas Apps?
While this is fairly simple, I came across implementations where custom string manipulation function is written to remove the HTML and XML tags. In-fact there is a function available in PowerApps which does just that. And that function is PlainText.
So let’s see the PlainText function in action.
As you can see in the above screenshot, I am using the PlainText function to strip all HTML characters and covert it into a simple string. Quite wonderful isn’t it?
The function also does HTML decoding. In the below example, not only HTML characters are stripped, even the HTML encoded characters like " and are decoded.
Not only HTML characters, it even takes care of removing the XML tags from a string.
Quite interesting. If you try to do it using string manipulation, then it’s quite a task. And these are the kind of functions I believe which truly stands by low code no code concept.
Hope this helped!
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