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**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 26, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-html-strip-char-filter/5696 "2011-10-26T18:57:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 1
**Author:**  [@Mauricio\_Alarcon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mauricio_Alarcon)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-html-strip-char-filter/5696/1 "2011-10-26T18:57:22Z")
Guys, I'm in need of remove all html from a specific field on my
documents corpus. I based my configuration on
[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/analysis/custom-analyzer.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/analysis/custom-analyzer.html)
and ended with this inside my elasticsearch.yml
11 index :
12 analysis :
13 analyzer:
14 descriptionAnalyzer:
15 type: custom
16 tokenizer: standard
17 filter: standard
18 char\_filter: html\_strip
And in the mappings I pointed the field that I wanted to this
analyzer
"description" : { "type" : "string", "index" : "analyzed",
"analyzer" : "descriptionAnalyzer" }
I confirmed that it was used after few indexed docs
```
"description" : {
"analyzer" : "descriptionAnalyzer",
"type" : "string"
},
```
But I'm still getting html in my search results.
What am I doing wrong?
Cheers
~M
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**Author:**  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-html-strip-char-filter/5696/2 "2011-10-26T20:48:28Z")
What do you mean that you get HTML in your search results? You get them as
part of the \_source? If so, then it makes sense, since the \_source is just
the document you indexed.
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:57 PM, maverick [mauricio.alarcon@gmail.com](mailto:mauricio.alarcon@gmail.com)wrote:
> Guys, I'm in need of remove all html from a specific field on my
> documents corpus. I based my configuration on
>
> [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/analysis/custom-analyzer.html)
>
> and ended with this inside my elasticsearch.yml
>
> 11 index :
> 12 analysis :
> 13 analyzer:
> 14 descriptionAnalyzer:
> 15 type: custom
> 16 tokenizer: standard
> 17 filter: standard
> 18 char\_filter: html\_strip
>
> And in the mappings I pointed the field that I wanted to this
> analyzer
> "description" : { "type" : "string", "index" : "analyzed",
> "analyzer" : "descriptionAnalyzer" }
>
> I confirmed that it was used after few indexed docs
>
> ```
> "description" : {
> "analyzer" : "descriptionAnalyzer",
> "type" : "string"
> },
>
> ```
>
> But I'm still getting html in my search results.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Cheers
>
> ~M
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**Author:**  [@phobos182](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/phobos182)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-html-strip-char-filter/5696/3 "2011-10-27T13:33:48Z")
I submitted something like this a few months back. The HTML script character filter just removes the items from the index, but not from the stored \_source / value.
We use JSoup to remove HTML entries before indexing on the client side.
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**Author:**  [@Mauricio\_Alarcon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mauricio_Alarcon)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-html-strip-char-filter/5696/4 "2011-10-27T13:40:03Z")
Thanks Shay,
I spoke too soon, seems that I had a brain fart. After posting the
message I started playing with the analyzer and indeed the analyzer
does its job just right. I gisted it here for the record
>
For a moment I thought that playing with the analyzer + setting
store=yes will also get rid off the html on my source, which was a
simple dirty way to remove unwanted formatting for my view. But indeed
this doesn't make any sense
Sorry for the false alarm
Cheers
~M
On Oct 26, 4:48 pm, Shay Banon [kim...@gmail.com](mailto:kim...@gmail.com) wrote:
> What do you mean that you get HTML in your search results? You get them as
> part of the \_source? If so, then it makes sense, since the \_source is just
> the document you indexed.
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:57 PM, maverick [mauricio.alar...@gmail.com](mailto:mauricio.alar...@gmail.com)wrote:
>
> > Guys, I'm in need of remove all html from a specific field on my
> > documents corpus. I based my configuration on
>
> > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/analysis/c)...
>
> > and ended with this inside my elasticsearch.yml
>
> > 11 index :
> > 12 analysis :
> > 13 analyzer:
> > 14 descriptionAnalyzer:
> > 15 type: custom
> > 16 tokenizer: standard
> > 17 filter: standard
> > 18 char\_filter: html\_strip
>
> > And in the mappings I pointed the field that I wanted to this
> > analyzer
> > "description" : { "type" : "string", "index" : "analyzed",
> > "analyzer" : "descriptionAnalyzer" }
>
> > I confirmed that it was used after few indexed docs
>
> > ```
> > "description" : {
> > "analyzer" : "descriptionAnalyzer",
> > "type" : "string"
> > },
> >
> > ```
>
> > But I'm still getting html in my search results.
>
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
> > Cheers
>
> > ~M
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**Author:**  [@Mauricio\_Alarcon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mauricio_Alarcon)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-html-strip-char-filter/5696/5 "2011-10-27T13:41:12Z")
Thanks for the tip phobos182 this is just exactly what I was looking
for
~M
On Oct 27, 9:33 am, phobos182 [phobos...@gmail.com](mailto:phobos...@gmail.com) wrote:
> I submitted something like this a few months back. The HTML script character
> filter just removes the items from the index, but not from the stored
> \_source / value.
>
> We use JSoup to remove HTML entries before indexing on the client side.
>
> --
> View this message in context:[http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/How-to-use-html-strip](http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/How-to-use-html-strip)...
> Sent from the Elasticsearch Users mailing list archive at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com).
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**Author:**  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-html-strip-char-filter/5696/6 "2017-07-06T03:50:40Z")