strip_links

"<a href=\"/x\">Fish</a> & <b>Chips</b>"

Removes <a> elements, keeping their content. Also removes the href attribute from other elements and, as sanitize does, attributes such as a src starting with javascript: and disallowed CSS declarations in style. Does not remove <script> or attributes such as onclick. The returned string is already escaped (& becomes &, etc.), but it is not marked as html_safe, so <%= %> escapes it again.