The following function takes some nightmarish Word HTML and return a clean HTML output that you can use safely on the web. function cleanHTML($html) { $html = ereg_replace("<(/)?(font|span|del|ins)[^>]*>","",$html); $html = ereg_replace("<([^>]*)(class|lang|style|size|face)=("[^"]*"|'[^’]*’|[^>]+)([^>]*)>","<\1>",$html); $html = ereg_replace("<([^>]*)(class|lang|style|size|face)=("[^"]*"|’[^’]*’|[^>]+)([^>]*)>","<\1>",$html); return $html }