#21013 [NEW]: strip_tags doesn't work with regular HTML-Expression <br>

From: digex@web.de Operating system: Windows XP, FreeBSD PHP version: 4.3.0RC3 PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: strip_tags doesn't work with regular HTML-Expression <br> strip_tags doesn't work as expected. When trying so trip <br>-tags, strip_tags doesn't strip anything. It maybe strips somewhere else, but not on my screen. :-) Take this example code: <? $fin ="blabla<br>blabla"; $res =strip_tags($fin, "<br>"); echo $res; ?> echo outputs blabla<br>blabla in the HTML-Source. The solution is leaving the angle-brackets away like: <? $fin ="blabla<br>blabla"; $res =strip_tags($fin, "br"); echo $res; ?> But this doesn't correspond with the Documentation at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php Escaping with $res =strip_tags($fin, "\<br\>"); does it, but why? -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=21013&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21013&r=trysnapshot Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21013&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21013&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21013&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21013&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21013&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21013&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21013&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21013&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21013&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21013&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21013&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=21013&r=isapi