striptags

Strip HTML tags from a string — with optional allowed tags and a replacement for removed tags. A faithful Rust port of the striptags npm package: the same plaintext/html/comment state machine, including its handling of comments, quoted attributes, and stray </>. Zero dependencies and #![no_std].

use striptags::{strip_tags, strip_tags_with};

assert_eq!(strip_tags("<p>Hello <b>world</b></p>"), "Hello world");
assert_eq!(strip_tags_with("<p>Hi</p><a>x</a>", &["a"], ""), "Hi<a>x</a>");
assert_eq!(strip_tags_with("<p>Hi</p>", &[], "\n"), "\nHi\n");

Why striptags?

Pulling readable text out of HTML — for search indexing, previews, plain-text emails, or light sanitization — is a common need, and the canonical JS implementation handles the tricky bits (comments, > inside quoted attributes, unterminated tags, a < b). This ports it faithfully.

[dependencies]
striptags = "0.1"

Note: like the original, this is a fast tag remover, not a security sanitizer. For untrusted HTML where XSS matters, use a dedicated sanitizer such as ammonia.

API

Behavior

• Allowed tag names are matched against the lower-cased tag name, so pass them in lower case (&["p", "a"]).
• HTML comments (<!-- … -->) are removed entirely (no replacement emitted).
• A > inside a quoted attribute is ignored; a stray < (with a space) is kept as text; an unterminated tag at end of input produces no output.

Contributors ✨

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind are welcome — code, docs, bug reports, ideas, reviews! See the emoji key for how each contribution is recognized, and open a PR or issue to get involved.

Thanks goes to these wonderful people:

License

Licensed under either of Apache-2.0 or MIT at your option.