#### 30.2.6 Eliminating unwanted paragraphs

To prevent text from appearing in HTML output, you can do the following:

1. Use a special @outputclass for all instances of the text in your document.
2. In the configuration file, assign property Delete to the resulting paragraph format:

       [HTMLParaStyles]
       ;  Delete removes the style and all of its content
       ParaFmt = Delete

The Delete format property works whether or not the paragraph actually has content. It omits paragraph content from HTML output, and omits the format from any consideration in mapping to DITA parent elements.

Any paragraph content is still available, and can be used in DITA2Go macros; see §37.3.5 Creating macro variables from paragraph content.

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Sibling Topics:

30.2.1 Assigning HTML tags and attributes to paragraph formats

30.2.2 Including or excluding paragraph autonumbers

30.2.3 Designating script paragraph formats

30.2.4 Stripping paragraph properties

30.2.5 Providing content for empty paragraphs