Attachment Page Descriptions

I am using the code snippet provided on themesandco.com to show the image description on my attachment pages.

I would like to be able to use html in my image descriptions.

do I just change this:
<?php echo strip_tags(apply_filters (‘the_excerpt’, $post->post_content)) ?>
to this:
<?php echo apply_filters (‘the_excerpt’, $post->post_content) ?>

?