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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 3, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strip-html/76421 "2006-03-03T22:12:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:**  [@matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strip-html/76421/1 "2006-03-03T22:12:49Z")
say i wanted to allow only certain html characters from my user
submissions, and strip everything else. does rails have a built-in for
this?
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**Author:**  [@matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 2:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strip-html/76421/2 "2006-03-04T14:01:21Z")
matt a écrit :
> say i wanted to allow only certain html characters from my user
> submissions, and strip everything else. does rails have a built-in for
> this?
No, but you should look at RubySoup.
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**Author:**  [@matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strip-html/76421/3 "2006-03-04T19:15:48Z")
On 3 Mar 2006, at 21:09, matt wrote:
> say i wanted to allow only certain html characters from my user
> submissions, and strip everything else. does rails have a built-in
> for this?
I created a helper for my app that strips all html tags and then re-
links anything that is an http or mailto link using the strip\_tags
and auto\_link functions
def sanitize\_text\_but\_keep\_links (text)
@sanitized\_text = strip\_tags(text)
@sanitized\_text = auto\_link(@sanitized\_text)
return @sanitized\_text
end
David
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