Strip html tags from Custom Excerpt

<?php strip_tags(the_excerpt);?>?

Should that not be…?

<?php strip_tags(the_excerpt());?>

Whoops! Spot today’s deliberate mistake…

Thanks! I tired that way before posting but it seems it don’t work with the php function…

Zampa

Can you post the code where you’re using it?…

Sure!

<!-- Loop  -->
<?php $oddentry = 'class="gray" '; ?>
<?php query_posts('cat=14&showposts=4&offset=1'); ?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
  <div <?php echo $oddentry; ?>>
    <div class="midcolumnpost">
      <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>		

<!-- ******************* HERE IS THE EXCERPT ******************** -->

       <?php strip_tags(the_excerpt());?>

<!-- ************************************************************ -->

       <div class="details">
         <?php the_time('F Y'); ?> | <?php comments_popup_link(__('Comment'), __('1 comment'), __('% comments'));?> | <a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>" title="Read more">Read more...</a>
       </div>
       </div>
       </div>

<?php /* Changes every other post to a different class */	$oddentry = ( empty( $oddentry ) ) ? 'class="gray" ' : ''; ?>

<!-- End of Loop for middle column -->
<?php endwhile; else : ?>
<?php endif; ?>

I’d like to strip html tags just from this loop. In the same page I have other loops in where I’d like to keep html in the custom excerpt.

Thanks!

<?php echo strip_tags(get_the_excerpt());?>

That works, though the tags still exist in the article, they are stripped off when the post is displayed…

ok, it works fine!

thank you a lot! ??

?? Happy it works for you… ??