title: How remove <p> and <br> from the_excerpt()?
body: <p>I have a short description by post but when I try to display description wordpress adds <code>&lt;p&gt;</code> or <code>&lt;br&gt;</code> or <code>&lt;strong&gt;</code>, how remove? Look at this pic:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Klet.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Klet.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>and my code is that:</p>
  
  <pre><code>        &lt;/span&gt;
              &lt;span class="address-place"&gt;
               &lt;?php echo the_excerpt (); ?&gt;
               &lt;hr&gt;
          &lt;/span&gt;
  </code></pre>