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Challenge 66: HTML Tag Stripper

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--description--

Given a string of HTML code, remove the tags and return the plain text content.

  • The input string will contain only valid HTML.
  • HTML tags may be nested.
  • Remove the tags and any attributes.

For example, '<a href="#">Click here</a>' should return "Click here".

--hints--

strip_tags('<a href="#">Click here</a>') should return "Click here".

js
({test: () => { runPython(`
from unittest import TestCase
TestCase().assertEqual(strip_tags('<a href="#">Click here</a>'), "Click here")`)
}})

strip_tags('<p class="center">Hello <b>World</b>!</p>') should return "Hello World!".

js
({test: () => { runPython(`
from unittest import TestCase
TestCase().assertEqual(strip_tags('<p class="center">Hello <b>World</b>!</p>'), "Hello World!")`)
}})

strip_tags('') should return an empty string ("").

js
({test: () => { runPython(`
from unittest import TestCase
TestCase().assertEqual(strip_tags(''), "")`)
}})

strip_tags('<main id="main"><section class="section">section</section><section class="section">section</section></main>') should return sectionsection.

js
({test: () => { runPython(`
from unittest import TestCase
TestCase().assertEqual(strip_tags('<main id="main"><section class="section">section</section><section class="section">section</section></main>'), "sectionsection")`)
}})

--seed--

--seed-contents--

py
def strip_tags(html):

    return html

--solutions--

py
import re
def strip_tags(html):
    return re.sub(r'<[^>]*>', '', html)