html to string
import { decode } from 'html-entities';
function htmlToString(returnText: string) {
//-- remove BR tags and replace them with line break
returnText = returnText.replace(/<br>/gi, "\n");
returnText = returnText.replace(/<br\s\/>/gi, "\n");
returnText = returnText.replace(/<br\/>/gi, "\n");
// //-- remove P and A tags but preserve what's inside of them
returnText = returnText.replace(/<p.*>/gi, "\n");
returnText = returnText.replace(/<a.*href="(.*?)".*>(.*?)<\/a>/gi, " $2 ($1)");
// //-- remove all inside SCRIPT and STYLE tags
returnText = returnText.replace(/<script.*>[\w\W]{1,}(.*?)[\w\W]{1,}<\/script>/gi, "");
returnText = returnText.replace(/<style.*>[\w\W]{1,}(.*?)[\w\W]{1,}<\/style>/gi, "");
// //-- remove all else
returnText = returnText.replace(/<(?:.|\s)*?>/g, "");
// //-- get rid of more than 2 multiple line breaks:
returnText = returnText.replace(/(?:(?:\r\n|\r|\n)\s*){2,}/gim, "\n\n");
//-- get rid of more than 2 spaces:
returnText = returnText.replace(/ +(?= )/g, '');
returnText = returnText.replace(/<[^>]+>/g, '').replace(/</g, "<").replace(/>/g, ">")
returnText = decode(returnText);
return returnText;
}