John Davidson

Message:

How can I remove these <br /> tags from between the <ul> tags?

<p>Paragraph 1 <br /> Break line</p>

     <ul> <br />

    <li>  New Line</li>   <br />

    <li> Second line </li>   <br />

    <li> Third line </li>   <br />

    </ul>  

<p>Paragraph two. <br /> break line</p>

The <br /> tags between list items are adding lines between list items.

How can I remove these <br /> tags in between <ul> </ul> only? I don't want any other <br/> tags to be removed.

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My Answer:
You can use PHP's DOMDocument class to remove the unwanted `
` tags between `

` and `

`. Here's an example code snippet to achieve this:

php
$html = '

Paragraph 1
Break line

• New Line



• Second line



• Third line

Paragraph two.
break line

';

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML($html);

$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
$brNodes = $xpath->query('//ul/br');

foreach ($brNodes as $brNode) {
$brNode->parentNode->removeChild($brNode);
}

$cleanHtml = $doc->saveHTML();

echo $cleanHtml;


This code will remove all `
` tags that are direct children of `

` tags in the provided HTML string.