diff --git a/bookstax/Extensions/String+HTML.swift b/bookstax/Extensions/String+HTML.swift
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+import Foundation
+
+extension String {
+    /// Strips HTML tags and decodes common HTML entities for plain-text display.
+    var strippingHTML: String {
+        // Use NSAttributedString to parse HTML — handles entities and nested tags correctly
+        guard let data = data(using: .utf8),
+              let attributed = try? NSAttributedString(
+                data: data,
+                options: [.documentType: NSAttributedString.DocumentType.html,
+                          .characterEncoding: String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue],
+                documentAttributes: nil)
+        else {
+            // Fallback: remove tags with regex
+            return replacingOccurrences(of: "<[^>]+>", with: "", options: .regularExpression)
+                .trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
+        }
+        return attributed.string.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
+    }
+}