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

It is also possible to use the fantastic htmlparser2 pure JS HTML parser. Here is a working demo:

var htmlparser = require('htmlparser2');

var body = '
This is 
a simple  example.
';

var result = [];

var parser = new htmlparser.Parser({
    ontext: function(text){
        result.push(text);
    }
}, {decodeEntities: true});

parser.write(body);
parser.end();

result.join('');

The output will be This is a simple example.

See it in action here: https://tonicdev.com/jfahrenkrug/extract-text-from-html

This works in both node and the browser if you pack you web application using a tool like webpack.