---
title: StripHtml
slug: neurons-for-itsm/admin-user-help/enu/latest/striphtml
createdAt: 2026-07-14T19:16:38.848Z
---

Returns the text value of the input without HTML markup. Use the optional **keepLineBreaks** parameter to specify whether to keep line breaks in.

## Syntax

StripHtml(htmlString, keepLineBreaks)

## Enabled For

For a description of the business object categories, see [Notes on "Enabled For"](docId\:u26v9feCFs6iLwA0-PVJd).

| Parameter                                                                                   | Yes/No |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ |
| Business Rules: Before-Save Rules                                                           | Yes    |
| Business Rules: Calculation Rules (After Save, with or without Also Recalculate on Load)    | Yes    |
| Business Rules: Calculation Rules (Before Save or Always, without Also Recalculate On Load) | Yes    |
| Business Rules: Calculation Rules (Before Save or Always, with Recalculate On Load)         | Yes    |
| Business Rules: Editing Rules                                                               | Yes    |
| Business Rules: Initialization Rules                                                        | Yes    |
| Business Rules: Read Only Rules                                                             | Yes    |
| Business Rules: Required Rules                                                              | Yes    |
| Business Rules: Validation Rules                                                            | Yes    |
| Client Expressions                                                                          | Yes    |
| Object Permissions                                                                          | No     |
| Services                                                                                    | Yes    |
| LDAP                                                                                        | Yes    |
| Mobile                                                                                      | Yes    |
| Quick Actions (except UI Quick Actions)                                                     | Yes    |
| UI Quick Actions                                                                            | Yes    |
| Reports                                                                                     | Yes    |
| Search/Dashboard without field references                                                   | Yes    |
| Search/Dashboard with field references                                                      | No     |
| Export to Excel                                                                             | No     |

## Parameters

| Parameter      | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| -------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| htmlString     | The HTML text to strip.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| keepLineBreaks | (Optional) A Boolean value that specifies if the line breaks in the HTML text to strip should be converted to a new line before the conversion.  If this value is true, the function takes all the \<br> tags and replaces them with new lines before it does the stripping to prevent all the lines from running together. |

## Return Value

Text value.

## Example

Example of StripHtml function with htmlString only:

$(StripHtml ("\<b>Use this sample code to fix the issue\</b>\<br> \<a href='' onmouseover='alert(/executed js/)' >Link\</a>"))

The example above removes the HTML tags and returns the following:

Use this sample code to fix the issue Link

Example of StripHtml function with keepLineBreaks as *true*:

$(StripHtml ("\<b>Use this sample code to fix the issue\</b>\<br> \<a href='' onmouseover='alert(/executed js/)' >Link\</a>", true))

The example above removes the HTML tags and returns the following:

Use this sample code to fix the issue

Link