I have a textarea field that contains links as well as text.
I need to strip HTML tags like <p> & <br> using stripTags() but must retain the <a href> links in the field so that they are still clickable.
If I don't use the stripTags() formatter, the link is displayed as HTML.
Is there a way around this?

Hi David,
You can't place a link inside a text area. A text area is designed to displaying text only content.
In order to do this you need a rich HTML editor.

Hi Teodor
The text area field is populated by Advanced HTML Editor 3 dynamically.
It displays as a clickable link using HTML5 Data Bindings on the insert/update record pages.
Perhaps I should purchase the new App Connect Medium Editor ...

I'm converting the site to use App Connect page by page, focusing on the frontend pages first.
After this I'll convert all the backend admin pages.

Cheers
Dave

If it is Advanced HTML Editor 3 it should be keeping the html tags. Can you send a link to your page?