I am using this snippet
<a href='<?php the_permalink() ?>' title='<?php echo strip_tags(the_excerpt()); ?>
with which I am intending to remove all ellipses
, <p>
tags and other shortcodes
and links
, but that does not work at all.
If I hover the anchor, I am still getting to see the <p>
wrapped in the excerpt, as well as other tags and the url links. What am I doing wrong and what do I have to do to get it working?
What you need is get_the_excerpt():
<a href='<?php the_permalink() ?>' title='<?php echo strip_tags( get_the_excerpt() ); ?>'>
However, it probably won't strip out ellipses (…) since they're HTML entities, not tags.