# Strip html tags from a text, in actionscript

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/strip-html-tags-from-a-text-in-actionscript/199548>\
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**Created:** [September 3, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/strip-html-tags-from-a-text-in-actionscript/199548 "2006-09-03T22:12:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 3, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/strip-html-tags-from-a-text-in-actionscript/199548/1 "2006-09-03T22:12:47Z")

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Hello !

i’m building a search functionality that searches into an array containing sometimes html formatted text.

I would like to ask if you have any idea how to strip those html tags , so having only the core text to display has search results ?

thanks a lot in advance,

Alex