wp_strip_all_tags( string $text, bool $remove_breaks = false )

Properly strips all HTML tags including script and style

Description

This differs from strip_tags() because it removes the contents of the <script> and <style> tags. E.g. strip_tags( '<script>something</script>' ) will return ‘something’. wp_strip_all_tags will return ”

Parameters

$text

(Required) String containing HTML tags

$remove_breaks

(Optional) Whether to remove left over line breaks and white space chars

Default value: false

Return

(string) The processed string.

Source

File: wp-includes/formatting.php

function wp_strip_all_tags($string, $remove_breaks = false) {
	$string = preg_replace( '@<(script|style)[^>]*?>.*?</\\1>@si', '', $string );
	$string = strip_tags($string);

	if ( $remove_breaks )
		$string = preg_replace('/[\r\n\t ]+/', ' ', $string);

	return trim( $string );
}

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Changelog

Changelog
Version	Description
2.9.0	Introduced.