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():However, it probably won’t strip out ellipses (â¦) since they’re HTML entities, not tags.
It’s because the_excerpt() outputs the excerpt right away. You want get_the_excerpt() which returns it as a string you can maninpute (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_excerpt).
You can also use wp_filter_nohtml_kses() (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_filter_nohtml_kses)
Something like: