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Function Reference/balanceTags

Description

Will balance the tags if forced to or the option is set to balance tags.

The option 'use_balanceTags' is used for whether the tags will be balanced. Either the $force parameter or 'use_balanceTags' option need to be true before the tags will be balanced.

Usage

<?php balanceTags( $text, $force ); ?>

Parameters

$text

(string) (required) Text to be balanced

Default: None

$force

(boolean) (optional) Forces balancing, ignoring the value of the option.

Default: false

Return Values

(string): Balanced text

Examples

Unclosed LI tags

<?php
$html = '<ul>
  <li>this
  <li>is
  <li>a
  <li>list
</ul>';
echo balanceTags($html, true);
?>

Will output this HTML:

<ul>
  <li>this
  </li><li>is
  </li><li>a
  </li><li>list
</li></ul>

Notes

Change Log

Since: 0.71

Source File

balanceTags() is located in wp-includes/formatting.php.

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