Remove HTML Tags with Regular Expression in Java

Run Application

Create new java file named Main.java. This file use Regular Expression remove HTML Tags as below:

package regular_expression;

public class Main {

	private static String removeHTMLTags(String content) {
		String htmlTagPattern = "\\<.*?\\>";
		return content.replaceAll(htmlTagPattern, "");
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) {

		String content = "<p>Paragraph 1</p><p>Paragraph 2</p><img src=\"images/a.gif\" width=\"120\" height=\"100\"><img src=\"images/b.gif\" width=\"120\" height=\"100\"><a href=\"abc.com\">Link 1</a><a href=\"def.net\">Link 2</a>";
		String result = removeHTMLTags(content);
		System.out.println(result);

	}

}

Output

Paragraph 1Paragraph 2Link 1Link 2