htmlutil

func StripTags ¶

func StripTags(s string) string

StripTags converts HTML to plain text with no live HTML tag in it. It turns block-level tags (p, div, br, etc.) into newlines to preserve paragraph structure, strips the remaining tags, decodes one level of entities, and cleans up whitespace.

Markup that was entity-encoded ("&lt;img ...&gt;") becomes a tag once decoded, so complete tags are stripped again after decoding and any leftover "<" that would open a tag is dropped. Escaped prose such as "a &lt; b" still decodes to "a < b". Deeper encodings ("&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;") decode one level to inert text ("&lt;b&gt;"). The result is plain text, not safe HTML: every consumer that writes it into HTML must still escape it.