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

This should do the work on any Javascript environment (NodeJS included).

const text = `

  
    
    
  
  This is some text

`;

// Remove style tags and content
text.replace(/]*>.*<\/style>/gm, '')
    // Remove script tags and content
    .replace(/]*>.*<\/script>/gm, '')
    // Remove all opening, closing and orphan HTML tags
    .replace(/<[^>]+>/gm, '')
    // Remove leading spaces and repeated CR/LF
    .replace(/([\r\n]+ +)+/gm, '');