From d8da32a2ed4af2cea9eb6a9a2f19d15bb2d9e755 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Weston Ruter <weston@xwp.co>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 20:08:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] General: Further preserve back-compat for
 `wp.sanitize.stripTags()` to return empty string when falsy value supplied.

Developed in https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/10856

Follow-up to [61578], [61347], [60907].

Props jonsurrell, hugod, westonruter.
See #64274.
Fixes #64574.

Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@61585


git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@60896 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/js/wp-sanitize.js     | 2 +-
 wp-includes/js/wp-sanitize.min.js | 2 +-
 wp-includes/version.php           | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/js/wp-sanitize.js b/wp-includes/js/wp-sanitize.js
index 7b69d65416..515c27ce5a 100644
--- a/wp-includes/js/wp-sanitize.js
+++ b/wp-includes/js/wp-sanitize.js
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 		 * @return {string} Stripped text.
 		 */
 		stripTags: function( text ) {
-			if ( null === text || 'undefined' === typeof text ) {
+			if ( ! text ) {
 				return '';
 			}
 
diff --git a/wp-includes/js/wp-sanitize.min.js b/wp-includes/js/wp-sanitize.min.js
index c14f69f553..8196c6d385 100644
--- a/wp-includes/js/wp-sanitize.min.js
+++ b/wp-includes/js/wp-sanitize.min.js
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 /*! This file is auto-generated */
-window.wp=window.wp||{},wp.sanitize={stripTags:function(t){return null==t?"":((t=(new DOMParser).parseFromString(t,"text/html")).body.innerText=t.body.innerText,t.body.innerHTML)},stripTagsAndEncodeText:function(t){let e=wp.sanitize.stripTags(t),n=document.createElement("textarea");try{n.textContent=e,e=wp.sanitize.stripTags(n.value)}catch(t){}return e}};
\ No newline at end of file
+window.wp=window.wp||{},wp.sanitize={stripTags:function(t){return t?((t=(new DOMParser).parseFromString(t,"text/html")).body.innerText=t.body.innerText,t.body.innerHTML):""},stripTagsAndEncodeText:function(t){let e=wp.sanitize.stripTags(t),n=document.createElement("textarea");try{n.textContent=e,e=wp.sanitize.stripTags(n.value)}catch(t){}return e}};
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index f613ddae61..68067ee4d1 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '7.0-alpha-61584';
+$wp_version = '7.0-alpha-61585';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.