Strip HTML from Text JavaScript

Question

Is there an easy way to take a string of html in JavaScript and strip out the html?

Answer 1

I would like to share an edited version of the Shog9's approved answer.

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As Mike Samuel pointed with a comment, that function can execute inline javascript codes.
But Shog9 is right when saying "let the browser do it for you..."

so.. here my edited version, using DOMParser:

function strip(html){
   let doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(html, 'text/html');
   return doc.body.textContent || "";
}

here the code to test the inline javascript:

strip("")

Also, it does not request resources on parse (like images)

strip("Just text ")