how can i only get the text content out from a html page?

[searain]

For example, I have news article in html page with images etc., i want to be able to only grab the text content of this news article to create a "printable" page of the news article. How can I do that?

[geera]

You can try something like this:

// read the file contents into a variable
// code to do that here

// strip out html tags
$text = strip_tags($file_contents);

// if you're displaying this in a browser, you can use nl2br() to keep line breaks in-tact
$text = nl2br($text);

echo $text;

[searain]

but i want to keep the text's html attributes/format such as table, fonts, http links etc. i only want to get rid off the non text contents such as images etc.

are there any codes do that?

thanks!