Strip HTML from Text JavaScript

Question

Is there an easy way to take a string of html in JavaScript and strip out the html?

Answer 1

An improvement to the accepted answer.

function strip(html)
{
   var tmp = document.implementation.createHTMLDocument("New").body;
   tmp.innerHTML = html;
   return tmp.textContent || tmp.innerText || "";
}

This way something running like this will do no harm:

strip("")

Firefox, Chromium and Explorer 9+ are safe. Opera Presto is still vulnerable. Also images mentioned in the strings are not downloaded in Chromium and Firefox saving http requests.