Probably in your case the filter should be DOM. So in the declaration of the filter use this.set_isDom(true);. This way the arguments of the getHtmlContent and getDesignContent methods will be the content area of the editor and you will be able to use dom functionality to get the unnecessary elements.
Kind regards,
Stanimir
the Telerik team
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