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strip_formatting
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:doc:`Text-related functions </Reference/packages/Function/Text/index>`

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Summary
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.. php:function:: strip_formatting(string $str, string $allowableTags = , string $fallbackStr = )

    Strip HTML formatting (i.e. tags) from the provided string.
    
    This is essentially a wrapper around PHP's strip_tags() function, with theadded benefit of returning a fallback string in case the resulting strippedstring is empty or contains only whitespace.
    
    :param string $str: The string to be stripped of HTML formatting.
    :param string $allowableTags: The string of tags to allow when stripping tags.
    :param string $fallbackStr: The string to be used as a fallback.
    :returns: The stripped string.

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Usage
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Examples
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See Also
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