The whole umbraco.library has been obsolete for years and has now been removed from v8 as a part of the "code cleanup".

Though, the RemoveFirstParagraphTag method was nice and should be requested re-invoked ...

Does anyone have a alternative for the deprecated RemoveFirstParagraphTag? I use that method extensively throughout my projects.

Hi bh

The implementation for it was like so:

 public static string RemoveFirstParagraphTag(string text)
        {
            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(text))
                return "";

            if (text.Length > 5)
            {
                if (text.ToUpper().Substring(0, 3) == "<P>")
                    text = text.Substring(3, text.Length - 3);
                if (text.ToUpper().Substring(text.Length - 4, 4) == "</P>")
                    text = text.Substring(0, text.Length - 4);
            }
            return text;
        }

so you could add an extension method or service to do the same logic in your new projects.

https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/blob/dev-v7/src/Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/library.cs

regards

Marc

One problem with using this method from Umbraco is that if you have multiple paragraphs or content that follows a paragraph, it will only strip the first opening tag and the last closing tag, which could result in something like the following:

My first paragraph</p> <p>My last paragraph

Or this:

A paragraph of text</p> <ul><li>A list item</li></ul>

It's usually better to leave the text alone in those cases since we're only interested in removing paragraph tags that Umbraco injected around the content. Here's a better implementation:

namespace MyNamespace.Extensions
{
    public static class StringExtensions
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Strips out <P> and </P> tags if they were used as a wrapper
        /// for other HTML content.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="text">The HTML text.</param>
        public static string RemoveParagraphWrapperTags(this string text)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(text))
            {
                return text;
            }

            string trimmedText = text.Trim();
            string upperText = trimmedText.ToUpper();
            int paragraphIndex = upperText.IndexOf("<P>");

            if (paragraphIndex != 0 ||
                paragraphIndex != upperText.LastIndexOf("<P>") ||
                upperText.Substring(upperText.Length - 4, 4) != "</P>")
            {
                // Paragraph not used as a wrapper element
                return text;
            }

            // Remove paragraph wrapper tags
            return trimmedText.Substring(3, trimmedText.Length - 7);
        }
    }
}

Usage from controller:

using MyNamespace.Extensions;

...

string rawContent = content.Value<string>("myContent");
string fixedContent = rawContent.RemoveParagraphWrapperTags();

RemoveFirstParagraphTag has been completely removed from Umbraco 8, which the developers confirmed. It hasn't been reimplemented in any of the Library or Helper classes.

This is the shortest method I found - might be helpful:

@Html.Raw(Regex.Match(Model.BodyText.ToHtmlString(), "^(<p>(?<Text>.*)</p>)|(?<Text>.*)", RegexOptions.Singleline).Groups["Text"])

Needs a @using at the top:

@using System.Text.RegularExpressions

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