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

var text = html.replace(/<\/?("[^"]*"|'[^']*'|[^>])*(>|$)/g, "");

This is a regex version, which is more resilient to malformed HTML, like:

Unclosed tags

Some text

"<", ">" inside tag attributes

Some text

Newlines

Some

The code

var html = '
This is > \nmy<>< > "text"])*(>|$)/g, "");