utils.html.strip_tags()

strip_tags(value) [source]

Tries to remove anything that looks like an HTML tag from the string, that is anything contained within <>.

Absolutely NO guarantee is provided about the resulting string being HTML safe. So NEVER mark safe the result of a strip_tag call without escaping it first, for example with escape().

For example:

strip_tags(value)

If value is "<b>Joel</b> <button>is</button> a <span>slug</span>" the return value will be "Joel is a slug".

If you are looking for a more robust solution, take a look at the bleach Python library.