Return Line Breaks from Jsoup.parse

Question

I'm attempting to parse out the html tags from a Java string and that is working fine using the below Jsoup parse method. The only thing is that when I call the .text method it removes the line breaks ("\n") tags. I want to keep those but still have the method return a String, any ideas?

 private static String stripHTML(String html) {
     return Jsoup.parse(html).text();
 }

Check the solution given on this question "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12503117/jsoup-line-feed" — Jorge P., Apr 20 '14 at 12:07

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 14 '13 at 00:45

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Newlines aren't any different from spaces (or consecutive spaces or tabs) in HTML. What you pull out won't have any semantic meaning. <p> and <br />, on the other hand...

answered Sep 14 '13 at 00:45

David Ehrmann

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While this is true, see http://stackoverflow.com/a/12580364/14731 or http://stackoverflow.com/q/5640334/14731 if you want to preserve newlines. – Gili Aug 28 '15 at 15:20

Return Line Breaks from Jsoup.parse

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