Substring text with HTML tags in Javascript

Question

Do you have solution to substring text with HTML tags in Javascript?

For example:

var str = \'Lorem ipsum dolor sit         


        

Answer 1

it is solution for single tags

function subStrWithoutBreakingTags(str, start, length) {
    var countTags = 0;
    var returnString = "";
    var writeLetters = 0;
    while (!((writeLetters >= length) && (countTags == 0))) {
        var letter = str.charAt(start + writeLetters);
        if (letter == "<") {
            countTags++;
        }
        if (letter == ">") {
            countTags--;
        }
        returnString += letter;
        writeLetters++;
    }
    return returnString;
}