method

strip_links

Ruby on Rails latest stable (v7.1.3.2) - 1 note - Class: ActionView::Helpers::SanitizeHelper

strip_links(html) public

Strips all link tags from html leaving just the link text.

strip_links('<a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org">Ruby on Rails</a>')
# => Ruby on Rails

strip_links('Please e-mail me at <a href="mailto:me@email.com">me@email.com</a>.')
# => Please e-mail me at me@email.com.

strip_links('Blog: <a href="http://www.myblog.com/" class="nav" target=\"_blank\">Visit</a>.')
# => Blog: Visit.

strip_links('<<a href="https://example.org">malformed & link</a>')
# => <malformed & link

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# File actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/sanitize_helper.rb, line 150
      def strip_links(html)
        self.class.link_sanitizer.sanitize(html)
      end

April 21, 2009

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strip_links method not functioning in controllers, models, or libs

It comes up with an error about white_list_sanitizer undefined in the class you’re using it in. To get around this, use:

ActionController::Base.helpers.strip_links('string')

To shorten this, add something like this in an initializer:

class String
  def strip_links
    ActionController::Base.helpers.strip_links(self)
  end
end

then call it with:

'string'.strip_links

strip_links

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strip_links method not functioning in controllers, models, or libs