removing opening anchor tag content

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Harry 8 posts 78 karma points

Dec 03, 2020 @ 12:14
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Removing opening anchor tag content
Hi,

I'm looking for a method to remove the start of an anchor tag "<a>" and it's href URL it contains from an Umbraco Property.

E.g. text = blogItem.GetPropertyValue<string>("text");

I want to remove all anchor tags from the string above as I am exporting as a csv file however, there are different anchor tags which contains different href URL content.

I know I can perform
```
text = blogItem.GetPropertyValue<string>("text").Replace("</a>", ""); 
```
to remove the end anchor tags, I'm just unsure how to do it at the start.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
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Huw Reddick 1929 posts 6717 karma points MVP 2x c-trib

Dec 03, 2020 @ 13:18

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sounds like you probably need to use regex, could you give a few example anchor tags and what you want the outcome to be.

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Steve Morgan 1349 posts 4459 karma points c-trib

Dec 03, 2020 @ 16:50

Hi,

I would use HtmlAgilityPack (install via Nuget).

@using HtmlAgilityPack

@{
  Layout = null;
}
@{
    var htmlDoc = new HtmlDocument();
    var text = blogItem.GetPropertyValue<string>("text").Replace("</a>", ""); 

    htmlDoc.LoadHtml(text);

    var aNodes = htmlDoc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//a");

    foreach (var node in aNodes)
    {
        // could check if they are an Umbraco link first here?
        node.Remove();
    }
    text = htmlDoc.DocumentNode.OuterHtml;
}

<textarea>@text</textarea>

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