I am using a view to display search results and one piece of information we have is a description field.

I am trying to strip out all the HTML tags using:

print strip_tags($description);

This is located in my views-list-search.tpl.php file.

Under normal circumstances, I would expect that this would work but for some reason is not stripping out the HTML - any thoughts on why this would be or how I can get it to work?