strip html from template tag (excerpt)

Try this:
<div class="something"><?php the_excerpt(); ?></div>

Then in your CSS instead of:

.something {
    whatever;
}

do:

.something p {
    whatever;
}

I think that’s what I’m going to have to do, although I really didn’t want to have to add an extra Div for such a simple thing.

Thanks for the reply

Is there any way you can target it with what it’s in already? What have you got either side of it – can you give me a link to your page?

Looking back at what you had originally, a less elegant way to achieve what you want is to do this:

<?php $excerpt = strip_tags(get_the_excerpt());
        echo $excerpt; ?>

the_excerpt() echoes the excerpt to the screen – it’s not a string, so you can’t strip the tags out. On the other hand, get_the_excerpt() returns the string that is then filtered and used in the_excerpt().

Myself I’d go for the extra div or span, but use what works for you.

Thanks so much for that – perfect.

I prefer to not add the extra div so this is great

Thanks again!

No problem! ??

Cool, thanks a lot Steve, I used it to echo an image alt text.

Obviously, using <? the_excerpt() ?> in the alt tag was outputing the html tags as well, so i had <p>....</p> as the alt text.

Now it’s perfect, thanks a lot man!

wow, this is what I’m looking for.. thanks a lot steve..
i think the guy here also got the same problem.. i referenced him this thread..

Appologies for the bump but I’ve found <?php the_excerpt_rss(); ?> gives you an unfiltered excerpt, the only difference is no <p> tags…

As far as I can tell anyway.