Convert HTML to plain text in JS without browser environment

Question

I have a CouchDB view map function that generates an abstract of a stored HTML document (first x characters of text). Unfortunately I have no browser environmen

Answer 1

Converter HTML to plain text like Gmail:

html = html.replace(//gi, '');
html = html.replace(//gi, '');
html = html.replace(/<\/div>/ig, '\n');
html = html.replace(/<\/li>/ig, '\n');
html = html.replace(/
/ig, '  *  ');
html = html.replace(/<\/ul>/ig, '\n');
html = html.replace(/<\/p>/ig, '\n');
html = html.replace(//gi, "\n");
html = html.replace(/<[^>]+>/ig, '');

If you can use jQuery :

var html = jQuery('
').html(html).text();