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Custom 'get plain text' function

Q:

When the user enters in multiple line breaks then the editor.PlainText translates any group of line breaks (<br />) to a single break (\n).
Is there any way for this to match up one to one?

A:

Use the following function instead of the PlainText property:

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
...
private string MyGetPlainText(Obout.Ajax.UI.HTMLEditor.Editor editor)
{
  // save the original HTML code
  string originalHtml = editor.EditPanel.Content;
  // get a random <br/> replacer content
  string dummyReplacer = (new Random()).Next().ToString();
  // replace all <br /> tags in the content with the dummy replacers
  editor.EditPanel.Content = Regex.Replace(editor.EditPanel.Content, @"<br[\s]*[/]*>[\n\r]*",
                                         "[---" + dummyReplacer + "---]", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
  // get plain text and replace the dummy replacers with the "new line" characters
  string plainText = Regex.Replace(editor.EditPanel.PlainText, @"\[---" + dummyReplacer + @"---\]",
                            "\n", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
  // restore the original HTML code
  editor.EditPanel.Content = originalHtml;
  // return the plain text
  return plainText;
}

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