---
title: Remove HTML tags
slug: cms-12/docs/removing-html-tags
docTags: 
createdAt: 2026-08-10T15:56:03.000Z
---

In most situations where content to be indexed contains HTML tags, remove the tags before indexing. If you do not, search results return HTML markup.

Example of removing HTML tags from a specific `RemoveHtmlTagsWhenIndexing` attribute found in the `EPiServer.Find.Json` namespace:

```csharp
using EPiServer.Find.Json;

public class WithStringProperty {
  public string Title {
    get;
    set;
  }

  [RemoveHtmlTagsWhenIndexing]
  public string Content {
    get;
    set;
  }
}
```

You also can customize the `Client` conventions to remove HTML tags from  string fields:

```csharp
client.Conventions.ForInstancesOf<object>()
  .FieldsOfType<string>().StripHtml();
```

To remove HTML tags from a specific field when indexing a particular type, use the `ForType` and `Field` methods:

```csharp
client.Conventions.ForType<BlogPost>()
  .Field(x => x.Content).StripHtml();
```

The `StripHtml` method also performs HTML decoding. The goals are to index the text that users see when viewing the page and to be able to find that content.

For example, Optimizely Search & Navigation stores the Swedish text *Jag gillar äpplen* as *Jag gillar äpplen* and decodes it back when indexing. A user can find the text using a query like *äpplen*.