Removing HTML tags

This topic describes how to remove HTML tags prior to indexing of objects in Episerver Find, so that the HTML markup is not displayed in the search results.

How it works

In most situations where the content that is to be indexed contains HTML tags, remove the tags before indexing because you otherwise both search in HTML tags and have HTML markup returned in search results.

Examples

Example of removing HTML tags from a specific RemoveHtmlTagsWhenIndexing attribute found in the EPiServer.Find.Json namespace:

using EPiServer.Find.Json;

public class WithStringProperty
{
    public string Title { get; set; }

    [RemoveHtmlTagsWhenIndexing]
    public string Content { get; set; }
}

You also can customize the Client conventions to remove HTML tags from all string fields:

client.Conventions.ForInstancesOf<object>()
    .FieldsOfType<string>().StripHtml();

To remove HTML tags from a specific field when indexing a specific type, we can use the ForType and Field methods:

client.Conventions.ForType<BlogPost>()
    .Field(x => x.Content).StripHtml();