How to ignore HTML tags using Thymeleaf when printing text string?

Question

I'm using Thymeleaf in my Spring Boot project.

I've got a text string which contains some HTML tags and my goal is to print it without styling as well as without any HTML tags.

Using:

<p th:text="${myString}"> </p>

I've got something like this:

<b> text </b>

And that's ok because the value of myString text string is

String myString = "<b> text </b>";

So trying to do it in other way, using:

<p th:utext="${myString}"> </p>

I've got something like this:

text

But my goal ist to get non-formatted plain text like this:

text

Simply text without any HTML tags and without rendering the HTML code.

How can I acheive this with using Thymeleaf only?

I've tried some th:remove="tags" along with th:inline="text" but It doesn't work so far.

Thanks in advance

To be clear, you have a String "<b> text </b>" and you want it to evaluate it to text? — riddle_me_this
– riddle_me_this, Commented Jun 27, 2017 at 1:55

Metroids · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-27 14:27:40Z

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Thymeleaf doesn't have any native support for this, so you're going to have to find your favorite library for removing tags use it instead. In this example, I used Jsoup.

After adding it to your pom file, something like this should work:

<div th:text="${T(org.jsoup.Jsoup).parse(myString).text()}" />

You could also create your own dialect that does it automatically, but that's more complicated. Then you could use your own attributes:

<div bohdan::removehtml="${myString}" />

answered Jun 27, 2017 at 14:27

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Rafal Over a year ago

Thank you! It's perfect.

Lay Leangsros · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-19 19:26:38Z

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Use utext Example:

<p th:utext="${myString}"> </p>

answered Dec 19, 2019 at 19:26

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0gam · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-28 08:49:01Z

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You use th:block in Thymeleaf. it is only thymeleaf sentence and don`t rendering html code.

Sample code

<th:block th:text="${message}"></th:block>

answered Jun 28, 2017 at 8:49

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Rafal Over a year ago

Thanks for your answer but it's not what I was looking for. Using th:block the result is still <b> text </b>

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