How to strip HTML tags from string in JavaScript? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Using the browser's parser is the probably the best bet in current browsers. The following will work, with the following caveats:

• Your HTML is valid within a
  element. HTML contained within or or tags is not valid within a

  and may therefore not be parsed correctly.
• textContent (the DOM standard property) and innerText (non-standard) properties are not identical. For example, textContent will include text within a