Topic: Strip margin from p tags

[jwhite68]

I want to be able to strip the MARGIN elements from the <P> tags.
Currently, I use strip tags to remove the <P> elements completely, but have found that this results in a poorer display of the clients data, since its ignoring paragraphs.

What I actually want to do is just ignore the MARGIN settings within the P tags.  Does anyone know how I can achieve this?

[Lumio]

What is a MARGIN-element?

[jaymc]

str_replace("<p style=margin:4px;>", "<p>" $strings);

I dunno is that what you want? That will be fine providing its margin is always the same and doesnt conflict with others p's you have where you want the margin

[jwhite68]

The source text with the margin information can vary.

Its containted within a description field, which my customers provide in HTML format.
Here is one example.  But the margin parameters could be set to anything, and the margin info could appear anywhere in the string. So it needs to be removed from every occurence in the string wherever it is.

<P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt;

Any ideas?

[jwhite68]

What I think would solve the issue is to strip any occurences of class=".." and style=".." from within any <p> tags.  Since those  classes and styles can contain anything from my clients, can someone suggest a way I can achieve this?

[jaymc]

It sounds quite tricky, you can probably do it using a few explodes or str_replaces but as I said, quite trick

How do the margin elements get in there ni the first place, maybe you should look at it that way. Kill it before it gets in and merged with your p tags

[Lumio]

preg_replace("/\<p.*?style=.*?margin:.*?;.*\>/", "<p>" $strings);