# How to pass html formatted messgae to rasa

**URL:** https://forum.rasa.com/t/how-to-pass-html-formatted-messgae-to-rasa/13701
**Category:** Rasa Open Source
**Created:** [July 30, 2019, 6:03am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/how-to-pass-html-formatted-messgae-to-rasa/13701 "2019-07-30T06:03:50Z")
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### Author: ![bikashkumars](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/bikashkumars/32/2589_2.png) [@bikashkumars](https://forum.rasa.com/u/bikashkumars)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2019, 6:52am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/how-to-pass-html-formatted-messgae-to-rasa/13701/2 "2019-09-08T06:52:52Z")

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May i know, why you want to pass HTML formatted messages to Rasa and expect to get one response ?

Solution

1. Use some backend or frontend library to strip html tags from text
2. Pass plain text to rasa

Chatbot are based on NLP which works best on Plain text

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