Remove Html Entities

[maddyvora]

I am trying to Get Plain Text from Ckeditor from last 2 days. but i cant get it. its also contain html Tags and its value. i want to remove all spaces and used trim value.

[Jakub Ś]

First of all this is not a bug!!**
If you are looking for advice please use one of our forums ​http://cksource.com/forums

Editing area in CKEditor is HTML document. You need to walk the DOM tree and get all the textNodes values.

Walk through DOM method can be found here: ​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3677228/dom-traversal-one-by-one-node-using-jquery

You will need to change some classic JS DOM properties to CKEditor functions. Those two classes:
​http://docs.cksource.com/ckeditor_api/symbols/CKEDITOR.dom.node.html
​http://docs.cksource.com/ckeditor_api/symbols/CKEDITOR.dom.element.html
and a piece of code to get the body:

CKEDITOR.instances.editor1.document.getBody()

is all you need.

One more thing: A knowledge about node types (​http://www.javascriptkit.com/domref/nodetype.shtml) is also needed. Text nodes are represented by number 3 but watch out the functions like getNext() or getFirst() are not applicable for these types of nodes so keep that in mind when changing a function.