striptags
Striptags is a function or tool commonly found in programming languages and web development frameworks. Its primary purpose is to remove HTML and XML tags from a given string of text. This is often necessary when displaying user-generated content or data that might contain markup, but you only want to show the plain text.
For example, if a user enters "This is a <b>bold</b> statement.", striptags would process it and return
The implementation of striptags can vary. Some versions might be very basic, simply looking for and deleting
Striptags is a security measure, particularly against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. By stripping potentially malicious HTML