Deleting all anchor elements from content

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This is a bit of an odd problem, but how would I go about removing all <a> tags generated from a markdown file in a single.html template? Use case: <a> tags are apparently not valid for certain Google structured data.

Doing {{.Content}} generates the following:

<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</p>

<p><a class="post" href="https://example.com/" title="Link">This is a Link</a></p>
<p><a class="post2" href="https://google.com/" title="Link2">This is a second Link</a></p>

How would I go about deleting every instance of the <a> tag, so removing

<a class="post" href="https://example.com/" title="Link"> and </a>
<a class="post2" href="https://example.com/" title="Link2"> and </a>

I’d like to keep the text: This is a Link and This is a second Link

Each link may have a unique class, href and title. Some links may be mailto links.

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You could use replaceRE for this. You’ll wanna tweak this to your needs (and make the match more specific) but something like this would work.

{{ $content := replaceRE "<a .*\">" "" .Content }}
{{ $content = replaceRE "</a>" "" $content }}
{{ $content | safeHTML }}
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