javascript - Ripping off HTML tags and considering line breaks in a textarea

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I am using CodeIgniter for my own web page and I have several textareas in it. Is there any way that I can prevent HTML tags to be stored in the database? Is there any utility that takes the text out clean?

Also, I do want to display line breaks, so when anyone types anything in the textarea and presses enter, it should produce a line break when displayed later. Should I store the<br> in the database?

I don't know if this can be done with CodeIgniter or any php function or javascript and/or jQuery has to be used, and how to do it.

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Solution:

Make use of for this... with an allowable tag<br> selected.

$text = strip_tags($htmltext,'<br>');// <br> is an allowed tag , others will be stripped off..

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Solution:

Use the php function strip tags: http://www.php.net/strip_tags

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