HTML StripTags for Go

This is a Go package containing an extracted version of the unexported stripTags function in html/template/html.go.

⚠️ This package does not protect against untrusted input. Please use bluemonday if you have untrusted data ⚠️

Background

• The stripTags function in html/template/html.go is very useful, however, it is not exported.
• Requests were made on GitHub without success.
• This package is a repo for work done by Christopher Hesse provided in this Gist.

Installation

$ go get github.com/grokify/html-strip-tags-go

Usage

import(
    "github.com/grokify/html-strip-tags-go" // => strip
)

func main() {
    original := "<h1>Hello World</h1>"
    stripped := strip.StripTags(original) // => "Hello World"
}