Changeset 61585

Timestamp:

02/03/2026 08:07:57 PM (8 weeks ago)

Author:

westonruter

Message:

General: Further preserve back-compat for wp.sanitize.stripTags() to return empty string when falsy value supplied.

Developed in ​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/10856

Follow-up to [61578], [61347], [60907].

Props jonsurrell, hugod, westonruter.
See #64274.
Fixes #64574.

Location:

trunk

Files:

• src/js/_enqueues/wp/sanitize.js (modified) (1 diff)
• tests/qunit/wp-includes/js/wp-sanitize.js (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/js/_enqueues/wp/sanitize.js

@@ -24 +24 @@
          */
         stripTags: function( text ) {
-            if ( null === text || 'undefined' === typeof text ) {
+            if ( ! text ) {
                 return '';
             }

trunk/tests/qunit/wp-includes/js/wp-sanitize.js

@@ -23 +23 @@
 } );
 
+QUnit.test( 'stripTags should return empty string for input 0', function( assert ) {
+    const result = wp.sanitize.stripTags( 0 );
+    assert.strictEqual( result, '', 'stripTags( 0 ) should return ""' );
+} );
+
+QUnit.test( 'stripTags should return "0" for input "0"', function( assert ) {
+    const result = wp.sanitize.stripTags( '0' );
+    assert.strictEqual( result, '0', 'stripTags( "0" ) should return "0"' );
+} );
+
+QUnit.test( 'stripTags should return empty string for input false', function( assert ) {
+    const result = wp.sanitize.stripTags( false );
+    assert.strictEqual( result, '', 'stripTags( false ) should return ""' );
+} );
+
+QUnit.test( 'stripTags should return empty string for input NaN', function( assert ) {
+    const result = wp.sanitize.stripTags( NaN );
+    assert.strictEqual( result, '', 'stripTags( NaN ) should return ""' );
+} );
+
+QUnit.test( 'stripTags should return empty string for empty string input', function( assert ) {
+    const result = wp.sanitize.stripTags( '' );
+    assert.strictEqual( result, '', 'stripTags( "" ) should return ""' );
+} );
+
 QUnit.module( 'wp.sanitize.stripTagsAndEncodeText' );