removing html tags from string

Question

I am trying to remove the HTML tags from a string. Right now I am able to remove the complete HTML tags like for example

dadsasdsad

Answer 1

Using javascript you can do this:

function removeHTMLTags(htmlString) {
    if(!htmlString) { return; }
    var mydiv = document.createElement("div");
    mydiv.innerHTML = htmlString;
    return mydiv.textContent || mydiv.innerText || '';
}

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