how do you strip html tags in textarea input

Question

I have set up a little web application where you add post-its to a page. It\'s just a project to help better learn JavaScript/jQuery and it seemed like an appropriate projec

Answer 1

You have three issues: One is that the method is not returning properly (that's the fault of whoever wrote it). Next is that you are defining the method within $(document).ready(), so it is not able to be found (at least in Chrome). Third, you are not calling it the right way (onSubmit will never be used here).

I've used @Joao's method (so you should upvote his answer) and used this method, moved outside of the ready() function:

function stripHTML(str){
  var strippedText = $("
").html(str).text();
  return strippedText;
}​

And also called it here:

var post = stripHTML($(".text_input").val())

Here is the working fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ee3MH/