I've ran into the same "strip tags" issue. Having used ES before, that does sanitizing and stripping for you, at first I was dissapointed.

However, after thinking about it more, I wrote up this issue[0] with some ideas and thoughts so I could implement it as PR or work around it.

I ended up working around it, because that makes most sense: separation of concerns: meilisearch should indeed not get involved in stripping or fixing HTML as that i) ties Meili to HTML, ii) requires configuration and complexity to allow control and iii) adds features that become security-critical.

Indeed, my solution is to sanitize, clean and strip HTML before sending into the index.

https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch/issues/1409