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

function stripHTML(text){
   var regex = /(<([^>]+)>)/ig;
   return text.replace(regex, "");
}
// USE: var str = stripHTML('test');

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/pisabev/eJzfw/3/