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I have created a visualforce page which displays a rich text field from my custom object, the field contains html tags for formatting which I would like to strip out as I will be cutting off the text after x characters which may cause issues if there are any unclosed html tags.

Here is my code at the moment:

<apex:outputText class="text-excerpt" value="{!left(article.Content__c,300)}" />
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In your scenario, you could try doing this (use escape attribute)

<apex:outputText class="text-excerpt" value="{!left(article.Content__c,300)}" escape="false" />
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  • Wouldn't that do the opposite of what I want? that wont the escape the html tags which means they could be leave unclosed tags
    – Deployment Failure
    Oct 10, 2014 at 15:09
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The System.String class has a 'stripHtmlTags' method.

Removes HTML markup from the input string and returns the plain text.

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  • Daniel, adding some more text or explanation will increase the meaning of your answer. For instance: I've gone ahead and included a quote out of the docmentation that you refered to.
    – Samuel De Rycke
    Oct 12, 2014 at 21:31
  • This was my first answer so just went for it. Thank you for your help Samuel.
    – daniel.huckins
    Oct 12, 2014 at 21:58

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