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Brian Milinski 42 posts 165 karma points

Oct 17, 2016 @ 20:21
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Rich Text Editor for Meta Description Tag
Hi, I am wondering if anyone has run into the issue of using a rich text editor that they are putting content into for their meta description for SEO. The problem I am running into is that all of the HTML tags and links are coming along for the ride, and I don't necessarily want this to be occurring. Is there an elegant way to just get the text from the rich text editor.

Calling .ToString() gives me an ugly looking meta description.
```
@if (pageVariables.HasValue("copy"))
{
    <meta name="twitter:description" content="@umbraco.library.RemoveFirstParagraphTag(Html.Raw(pageVariables.copy).ToString())">
}
```
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Marc Goodson 2157 posts 14431 karma points MVP 9x c-trib

Oct 17, 2016 @ 22:26
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Hi Brian

I tend to use a text area for these meta descriptions, so that I'm not putting html inside the content attribute of a meta tag, however...

There is an UmbracoHelper method called StripHtml that you could use to remove the html you do not want here:
```
@Umbraco.StripHtml("<blink>Stop the blinking</blink>");
```
and you may also want to limit the number of characters of the description that gets written into the content attribute, if so there is also a Truncate method on the UmbracoHelper... eg
```
@Umbraco.Truncate("I wish I was a tweet, at least then I get 140 chars", 10, true)
```
Other Umbraco Helpers detailed here:

https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/reference/querying/umbracohelper/

regards

marc
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Brian Milinski 42 posts 165 karma points

Oct 18, 2016 @ 13:18

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Marc,

Thanks so much for your quick response. This is exactly what I was looking for, and this allows me to leave my underlying Umbraco structure unchanged. Win. :)

Brian

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