How to remove HTML markup from string

Question

Let's say I have:

@string = "it is a <a href="#">string</a>"

I want to use it in different parts of my application in two ways:

• With a clickable link
• Without the clickable link (but not showing any HTML markup)

The first one can be done using html_safe:

@string.html_safe

It is a string

How can I achieve the second one?

It is a string.

Answer 1

You can try this:

ActionView::Base.full_sanitizer.sanitize(@string)

See strip_tags(html).

Answer 2

You can try this:

strip_tags(@string)