# Help needed: difference between .Plain, .PlainWords and plainify

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**Created:** [March 4, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/help-needed-difference-between-plain-plainwords-and-plainify/5681 "2017-03-04T00:30:39Z")\
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`.Plain` is the Page content stripped of HTML tags as a **string**.

`.PlainWords` is the Page content stripped of HTML as a **[]string** (string slice). Under the hood, we’re using Go’s [strings.Fields](https://golang.org/pkg/strings/#Fields) to split `.Plain` into a slice.

`.RawContent` is the raw content read from the content file. Generally, this would be the raw Markdown content prior to any encoding from Hugo.

`plainify` is a template function that takes a given input, strips it of HTML tags, and returns a **string**.

`jsonify` is a template function that takes a given object, encodes it as JSON, and converts it to HTML-safe content.

The `safe*` family takes a given input and does a type-casting to the thing you want. For example, `safeHTML` can take a `string` as input, but returns a `template.HTML` type. Go HTML templates are context-aware. If you try to print a `string` with HTML tags in an HTML context, Go will escape all of the HTML tags. In that case, you need to convert the `string` type to `template.HTML` so that Go will leave it alone.

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