Remove `encode_special_chars` option from `strip_tags`

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/sanitize_helper.rb b/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/sanitize_helper.rb
index 1e9b813d3d..0abd5bc5dc 100644
--- a/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/sanitize_helper.rb
+++ b/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/sanitize_helper.rb
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ module ActionView
       # It also strips href/src attributes with unsafe protocols like
       # <tt>javascript:</tt>, while also protecting against attempts to use Unicode,
       # ASCII, and hex character references to work around these protocol filters.
+      # All special characters will be escaped.
       #
       # The default sanitizer is Rails::Html::WhiteListSanitizer. See {Rails HTML
       # Sanitizers}[https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer] for more information.
@@ -20,8 +21,7 @@ module ActionView
       # Custom sanitization rules can also be provided.
       #
       # Please note that sanitizing user-provided text does not guarantee that the
-      # resulting markup is valid or even well-formed. For example, the output may still
-      # contain unescaped characters like <tt><</tt>, <tt>></tt>, or <tt>&</tt>.
+      # resulting markup is valid or even well-formed.
       #
       # ==== Options
       #
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ module ActionView
         self.class.white_list_sanitizer.sanitize_css(style)
       end
 
-      # Strips all HTML tags from +html+, including comments.
+      # Strips all HTML tags from +html+, including comments and special characters.
       #
       #   strip_tags("Strip <i>these</i> tags!")
       #   # => Strip these tags!
@@ -96,8 +96,11 @@ module ActionView
       #
       #   strip_tags("<div id='top-bar'>Welcome to my website!</div>")
       #   # => Welcome to my website!
+      #
+      #   strip_tags("> A quote from Smith & Wesson")
+      #   # => &gt; A quote from Smith &amp; Wesson
       def strip_tags(html)
-        self.class.full_sanitizer.sanitize(html, encode_special_chars: false)
+        self.class.full_sanitizer.sanitize(html)
       end
 
       # Strips all link tags from +html+ leaving just the link text.
@@ -110,6 +113,9 @@ module ActionView
       #
       #   strip_links('Blog: <a href="http://www.myblog.com/" class="nav" target=\"_blank\">Visit</a>.')
       #   # => Blog: Visit.
+      #
+      #   strip_links('<<a href="https://example.org">malformed & link</a>')
+      #   # => &lt;malformed &amp; link
       def strip_links(html)
         self.class.link_sanitizer.sanitize(html)
       end