Twig Components / Methods / plaintext

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plaintext is a Twig filter to return a "plaintext" version of the string.

For example:

{% set text = "Bonum patria: señor & <em>éxilium</em>!" %} 
{{ text|plaintext }}

=> Bonum patria: señor & éxilium!

This returns a string with letters, numbers and common extra characters, but without HTML tags. This makes the output very suited for - for example - use in <title> tags.

The main difference between this filter and |striptags is that the output of this filter is marked as HTML in Twig, meaning that characters like & and ' will not be escaped. If you wish these to be escaped, use |striptags instead.