---
title: "Liquid filters: strip"
description: Strips all whitespace from the left and right of a string.
api_name: liquid
source_url:
  html: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/filters/strip
  md: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/filters/strip.md
---

# strip

```oobleck
string | strip
```

returns [string](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/basics#string)

Strips all whitespace from the left and right of a string.

```liquid
{%- assign text = '  Some potions create whitespace.      ' -%}


"{{ text }}"
"{{ text | strip }}"
```

## Output

```html
"  Some potions create whitespace.      "
"Some potions create whitespace."
```