jQuery (almost) equivalent of PHP's strip_tags()

Question

Is there a jQuery version of this function?

string strip_tags( string $str [, string $allowable_tags ] )

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Answer 1

UPDATE

Use the following to strip tags while keeping content

$('#text').find('p').contents().unwrap();

This will strip p tag where p is a child element of '#text'.

Check working example at http://jsfiddle.net/YWCsH/