hugo/docs/content/en/functions/transform/Plainify.md

---
title: transform.Plainify
description: Returns a string with all HTML tags removed.
categories: []
keywords: []
action:
  aliases: [plainify]
  related: []
  returnType: template.HTML
  signatures: [transform.Plainify INPUT]
aliases: [/functions/plainify]
---

```go-html-template
{{ "<b>BatMan</b>" | plainify }} → BatMan
```
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			`title: transform.Plainify`
			`description: Returns a string with all HTML tags removed.`
			`categories: []`
			`keywords: []`
			`action:`
			`aliases: [plainify]`
			`related: []`
tpl/transform: Make Plainify and ToMath return template.HTML None of these are useful as plain strings in the templates, which forces the users to do `transform.Plainify "foo" \| safeHTML`. If people have trust issues with the output of these functions, they need to just stop using them. Closes #8732 2024-08-11 06:48:30 -04:00			`returnType: template.HTML`
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			`aliases: [/functions/plainify]`
			`---`

			```go-html-template
			`{{ "<b>BatMan</b>" \| plainify }} → BatMan`
			```