Service Manager

StripHtml

Returns the text value of the input without HTML markup. Use the optional keepLineBreaks parameter to specify whether to keep line breaks in.

Syntax

StripHtml(htmlString, keepLineBreaks)

Enabled For

For a description of the business object categories, see Notes on "Enabled For".

Business Object Category	Yes/No
Business Rules: Before-Save Rules	Yes
Business Rules: Calculation Rules (After Save, with or without Also Recalculate on Load)	Yes
Business Rules: Calculation Rules (Before Save or Always, without Also Recalculate On Load)	Yes
Business Rules: Calculation Rules (Before Save or Always, with Recalculate On Load)	Yes
Business Rules: Editing Rules	Yes
Business Rules: Initialization Rules	Yes
Business Rules: Read Only Rules	Yes
Business Rules: Required Rules	Yes
Business Rules: Validation Rules	Yes
Client Expressions	Yes
Object Permissions	No
Services	Yes
LDAP	Yes
Mobile	Yes
Quick Actions (except UI Quick Actions)	Yes
UI Quick Actions	Yes
Reports	Yes
Search/Dashboard without field references	Yes
Search/Dashboard with field references	No

Parameters

htmlString	The HTML text to strip.
keepLineBreaks	(Optional) A Boolean value that specifies if the line breaks in the HTML text to strip should be converted to a new line before the conversion.  If this value is true, the function takes all the <br> tags and replaces them with new lines before it does the stripping to prevent all the lines from running together.

Return Value

Text value.

Example

$(StripHtml ("<b>Use this sample code to fix the issue</b><br> <a href='' onmouseover='alert(/executed js/)' >Link</a>"))

The example above removes the HTML tags and returns the following:

Use this sample code to fix the issue Link

 

$(StripHtml ("<b>Use this sample code to fix the issue</b><br> <a href='' onmouseover='alert(/executed js/)' >Link</a>")), true)

The example above removes the HTML tags and returns the following:

Use this sample code to fix the issue

Link