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

As an extension to the jQuery method, if your string might not contain HTML (eg if you are trying to remove HTML from a form field)

jQuery(html).text();

will return an empty string if there is no HTML

Use:

jQuery('
' + html + '
').text();

instead.

Update: As has been pointed out in the comments, in some circumstances this solution will execute javascript contained within html if the value of html could be influenced by an attacker, use a different solution.