jQuery remove tag from HTML String without RegEx

Question

So I have following string:

var s = \'Some Text Some other Text\';

The result should be a string with the content

Answer 1

This may suit your needs:

<([^ >]+)[^>]*>.*?|<[^/]+/>

Debuggex Demo

In JavaScript:

$s = s.replace(/<([^ >]+)[^>]*>.*?<\/\1>|<[^\/]+\/>/ig, "");

It also removes self-closing tags (e.g.
).