Can   be removed with plainify or similar?

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1

I’m trying to populate some meta data fields with text used as descriptions. This description text is used in headers etc elsewhere and sometimes I don’t want words to be separated across lines and so use  .

e.g. description = "The shop closes in 12 mins"

{{ else if .Params.description }}
    <meta
        property="og:description"
        content="{{ .Params.description | plainify }}"
    />
{{ end }}

results in

    <meta
        property="og:description"
        content="The shop closes in 12&amp;nbsp;mins"
    />

I’d rather it render to:

    <meta
        property="og:description"
        content="The shop closes in 12 mins"
    />

Is this possible using something other than plainify?

2

Answering my own question, “yes”.

{{ else if .Params.description }}
    <meta name="description" content="{{ .Params.description | plainify | htmlUnescape }}" />
{{ end }}

htmlUnescape is the key. I should have searched the repo first for the plainify code. I found the following file: hugo/transform.Unmarshal.md at 258884f44fc3ea6e4954936ddeb24e739eb8f58a · gohugoio/hugo · GitHub

But is the documentation correct stating “Plainify returns a copy of s with all HTML tags removed”?

3

&nbsp; is an HTML entity, not an HTML element.

4

Thanks - I’ve learned two things this evening!

The docs state for plainify “Strips any HTML and returns the plain text version of the provided string”, and I naively assumed that would include HTML character codes. Perhaps that should read “any HTML elements”?

5

It is now a verbatim copy of the source code description.

https://gohugo.io/functions/plainify/

And to clarify, this is an HTML element:

<div>foo</div>

These are HTML tags:

  • <div>
  • </div>