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Description:
This tag removes all font tags from a string argument using regular expression comparison to catch open font tag regardless of the attributes.

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfset dirtyString = "<font size=""5"" color=""pink"">Here is content a user entered on your site!!!</font>" />

<cfset cleanString = stripfont(dirtyString) />

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

/**
 * This tag removes all font tags from a string.
 * 
 * @param str      String to format. (Required)
 * @return Returns a string. 
 * @author Dave Shuck (dshuck@gmail.com) 
 * @version 1, January 10, 2006 
 */
function stripFont(str) {
    //remove the open font tag
    var returnStr = reReplaceNoCase(str,"(<font)[^>]*>","","all");
    //remove the close font tag
    returnStr = replaceNoCase(returnStr,"</font>","","all");
    //return the stripped string
    return returnStr;
}