stripHtml() Function

Function

stripHtml( html )

Changes the provided HTML string into a plain text string by converting <br>, <p>, and <div> to line breaks, stripping all other tags, and converting escaped characters into their display values.

Parameters

Keyword	Type	Description
html	Text	the html text to be "stripped" of tags and converted to plain text.

Returns

Text

Usage considerations

Handling for classes and styles

striphtml() will not convert <br>, <p>, and <div> tags to line breaks if they contain additional classes or styles. For example, <div class="test"> or <div style="align:center"> would not be converted to line breaks.

Examples

=stripHtml("<p>Click <b>Save</b>.</p>") returns Click Save.

Feature compatibility

The table below lists this function's compatibility with various features in Appian.

Feature	Compatibility	Note
Portals	Compatible
Offline Mobile	Compatible
Sync-Time Custom Record Fields	Compatible	Can be used to create a custom record field that only evaluates at sync time.
Real-Time Custom Record Fields	Incompatible	Custom record fields that evaluate in real time must be configured using one or more Custom Field functions.
Process Reports	Compatible
Process Events	Compatible

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