Problems with the stripTags output modifier

I have a TV that uses a richtext type so that I can have hyperlinks in the output. But it's adding the default <p> tags to the output. I was trying to use the stripTags modifier, but it's stripping ALL tags...including the <a> tag. What am I doing wrong?

My output is this:


I'm probably just not putting the right character in the modifier. But the Docs doesn't provide any examples.

Thanks in advance.

what richtext editor are you using? with most of them you can usually go into system settings and disable the wrapping of <p> tags around everything.

The argument to striptags specifies the tags you want it *not* to strip. Also, they need to be full tags. This might work: