A user enters text as HTML in a form, for example: I want to be able to output only a part of the string ( for example the first 20 characters ) without breaking the HTML structure of the user’s input. In this case: which renders as Is there a Java library able to do this, or a simple method
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Automatically generate HTML pages in Java
I am developing a Java desktop application. I have a need to create HTML pages through my application. When the user clicks on View in Browser button a HTML page should be created with some details and shown it to the user. Is there a way I can do this? Is there are any resources I can use in this
How to make javax Transformer output HTML (no self-closing tags)?
I’m using a javax.xml.transform.Transformer to convert an XML file into an HTML file. It can happen that a div will have no content, which causes the Transformer to output <div/>, which breaks rendering. I’ve searched and found that “You can change the xslt output to html instead of xml to avoid the problem with self closing tags”, but that was
Returning ZipOutputStream to browser
I have an ZipOutputStream that I want to return to the browser. The experience I would like is that the user clicks an anchor tag, and then a file download prompt is displayed for the ZipOutputStream that I have. How do you get the ZipOutputStream back to the browser? Answer Just had to do this exact same thing yesterday. Note
How can I efficiently parse HTML with Java?
I do a lot of HTML parsing in my line of work. Up until now, I was using the HtmlUnit headless browser for parsing and browser automation. Now, I want to separate both the tasks. I want to use a light HTML parser because it takes much time in HtmlUnit to first load a page, then get the source and
Remove HTML tags from a String
Is there a good way to remove HTML from a Java string? A simple regex like will work, but some things like & won’t be converted correctly and non-HTML between the two angle brackets will be removed (i.e. the .*? in the regex will disappear). Answer Use a HTML parser instead of regex. This is dead simple with Jsoup. Jsoup