sanitizeTextAndRemoveHtml — GTM Variable Template for String

VARIABLES › STRING

sanitizeTextAndRemoveHtml CORE String

Direct (.tpl) Apply (.tpl)

Sanitizes a string by removing HTML tags, replacing line breaks and tabs with spaces, collapsing multiple whitespace characters, and trimming leading/trailing whitespace.

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When to Use This

String Manipulation

Transform, clean, and normalize text data for consistent downstream processing.

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Examples

Remove HTML tags▶ Try

INPUT

Text To Sanitize: Hello World

OUTPUT

Hello World

Collapse multiple spaces▶ Try

INPUT

Text To Sanitize: Hello World Test

OUTPUT

Hello World Test

Non-string input returns undefined▶ Try

INPUT

Text To Sanitize: 12345

OUTPUT

undefined

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GTM Configuration

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sanitizeTextAndRemoveHtml

Read-Only Try Live

Text To Sanitize

💾 The string to sanitize and clean.

Supported formats:
  ✓ String

Input Setup

Input Function (optional)

⚙️ Optional pre-processing function applied to the input before internal logic (e.g., normalize encoding, convert to string). Internal transformations such as HTML removal will still apply afterward.

Result Handling

Output Function (optional)

⚙️ Optional function to apply to the result before returning it (e.g., str => str.toUpperCase(), val => val + ' cleaned' for string modifications). Useful for chaining transformations on the output.

Text To Sanitize string

💡 Type any text to see the result update live

🎯 Using special value — click input to type instead

Test with:

Falsy undefined null "" empty 0 false NaN

Truthy true 42 "hello" {} empty [] empty {a:1} [1,2,3]

🔗 Result Handling — Chain Variables

Chain apply-mode variables to the output. Each variable receives the result of the previous one.

sanitizeTextAndRemoveHtml()

+ Chain another variable

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Related Variables

Same category: String

→ assignParamsToString → charAt → concatenateValues → countWordsInString → endsWith → extract → extractFirstSegment → extractNumber → fromBase64 → indexOf → left → matchAll → matchRegex → omitParamsFromString → padEnd → padStart → pickParamsFromString → replaceAll → replaceAllWithRegex → replaceFirst → right → safeSplit → sanitizeTextLite → search → slice → split → startsWith → test → toBase64 → toCamelCase → toJsonString → toKebabCase → toLocaleLowerCase → toLocaleUpperCase → toLowerCase → toNumber → toSnakeCase → toStartCase → toString → toStringRepresentation → toUpperCase → toUpperFirst → trim → trimEnd → trimStart → truncate

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Under the Hood

📜 View Implementation Code

/**
* Sanitizes a string by:
* - Removing HTML tags
* - Replacing line breaks and tabs with spaces
* - Collapsing multiple whitespace characters into a single space
* - Trimming leading/trailing whitespace
* 
* @param {string} data.src - The string to sanitize.
* @param {Function|string} [data.out] - Optional output handler: function to transform result or string with format.
*
* Direct-mode specific parameters:
* @param {Function} [data.pre] - Optional pre-processor function to transform src before sanitizing.
* 
* @returns {string|undefined} The cleaned string, or undefined if input is not a string.
*
* @framework ggLowCodeGTMKit
*/
const sanitizeTextAndRemoveHtml = function(input) {
   if (typeof input !== 'string') {
       return undefined;
   }
   const blockTags = ['div', 'p', 'br', 'li', 'td', 'th', 'section', 'article'];
   let noTags = '';
   let insideTag = false;
   let tagBuffer = '';
   for (let i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
       const char = input[i];
       if (char === '<') {
           insideTag = true;
           tagBuffer = '';
           continue;
       }
       if (char === '>') {
           insideTag = false;
           const tagName = tagBuffer.toLowerCase().split(' ')[0].replace('/', '');
           if (blockTags.indexOf(tagName) !== -1) {
               noTags += ' ';
           }
           continue;
       }
       if (insideTag) {
           tagBuffer += char;
       } else {
           noTags += char;
       }
   }
   let cleaned = noTags.split('\n').join(' ')
                       .split('\r').join(' ')
                       .split('\t').join(' ');
   while (cleaned.indexOf('  ') !== -1) {
       cleaned = cleaned.split('  ').join(' ');
   }
   return cleaned.trim();
};
const safeFunction = fn => typeof fn === 'function' ? fn : x => x;
const out = safeFunction(data.out);
// ===============================================================================
// sanitizeTextAndRemoveHtml - Direct mode
// ===============================================================================
const applyCast = (castFn, value) => safeFunction(castFn)(value);
const value = applyCast(data.pre, data.src);
return out(sanitizeTextAndRemoveHtml(value));
// ===============================================================================
// sanitizeTextAndRemoveHtml() – Apply Mode
// ===============================================================================
/*
return function(value) {
  return out(sanitizeTextAndRemoveHtml(value));
};
*/

🧪 View Test Scenarios (5 tests)

✅ '[example] Remove HTML tags'
✅ String with line breaks and tabs - should replace with spaces
✅ '[example] Collapse multiple spaces'
✅ Complex HTML with block tags - should add spaces for block elements
✅ '[example] Non-string input returns undefined'