Convert HTML to plain text in contentEditable

Question

I have a contentEditable and I strip the formatting of pasted content on(\'paste\') by catching the event. Then I focus a textarea, paste the content i

Answer 1

Upon request from Jonathan Hobbs I am posting this as the answer. Thanks to the answers above I modified my code and solved the issue. I basically copied the value of textarea into a div and grabbed only its .text():

// on paste, strip clipboard from HTML tags if any
$('#post_title, #post_content').on("paste", function() {
  setTimeout(function(){
    var text = $('
').html($("#area").val()).text();
    pasteHtmlAtCaret(text);
  }, 20);
});