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Replace Paragraph Tags for Flash

Author:
blackbrrr
Posted:
August 4, 2008
Language:
Python
Version:
.96
Score:
1 (after 1 ratings)

This template tag does two things needed to display content from something like a TextField wrapped with TinyMCE in Flash's htmlText component:

  1. Replace <p> tags with <br />
  2. Strip all occurances of \n 
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from re import sub
from django import template
from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter

register = template.Library()

@stringfilter
@register.filter
def force_br(value):
    """
    For Flash, replace all <p> tags with <br />
    and strip newlines
    """
    
    if not value:
        return value
    
    value = sub('<p[^>]*>', '', value)
    value = sub('<\/p>', '<br />', value)
    value = sub("\n", "", value)
    
    return value

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