freecodecamp--freecodecamp/curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/daily-coding-challenges-python/68cae5b538ff798bbd4da004.md

id, title, challengeType, dashedName

id	title	challengeType	dashedName
68cae5b538ff798bbd4da004	Challenge 66: HTML Tag Stripper	29	challenge-66

--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".

({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!".

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

strip_tags('<img src="cat.jpg" alt="Cat">') should return an empty string ("").

({test: () => { runPython(`
from unittest import TestCase
TestCase().assertEqual(strip_tags('<img src="cat.jpg" alt="Cat">'), "")`)
}})

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

({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--

def strip_tags(html):

    return html

--solutions--

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