Jquery: Strip all specific HTML tags from string

Question

I have a variable that contains a string of text and html tags, such as:

var temp = \"
Some text
More texthere         


        

Answer 1

I'll follow up on @nbrooks because his answer is very close to what you want, but not quite. @nbrooks hit on the solution by noting that html() gives you the data that is wrapped in a tag. The solution therefore is to wrap your HTML in a tag. This should do the trick for you:

var temp = "
Some text
More texthere
Even more
";
$("" + temp + "").find('span,p').
  contents().unwrap().end().end().html()`

See http://jsfiddle.net/18u5Ld9g/1/ for an example.

As a more general function:

function stripTags(html, tags) {
  // Tags must be given in CSS selector format
  return $("" + html + "").find(tags).
    contents().unwrap().end().end().html();
}