extract_text_from_html

Extracts and returns the plain text content from an HTML string, stripping all HTML tags and markup.

Syntax

extract_text_from_html(html_content)

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
html_content	string	Yes	A string containing the HTML content to extract text from.

Returns

Type: string

A string containing the extracted text, cleaned of all HTML tags and trimmed of leading/trailing whitespace.

Examples

Strip HTML from a rich text field:

extract_text_from_html([description])

If description is "<p>Hello <b>World</b></p>", the result is "Hello World".

Clean HTML content before comparison or mapping:

extract_text_from_html("<div><h1>Title</h1><p>Some paragraph text.</p></div>")

Result: "Title Some paragraph text.".

Use with concatenate to build plain text summaries:

concatenate("Summary: ", extract_text_from_html([html_notes]))

Strips HTML from html_notes and prepends a label.

Notes

• This function uses an HTML parser internally, so it handles nested and complex HTML structures.
• The returned text is stripped of leading and trailing whitespace.
• If the input contains no HTML tags, the original text is returned (trimmed).