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

You can try this way. textContent with innerText neither of them compatible with all browsers:

var temp = document.createElement("div");
temp.innerHTML = html;
return temp.textContent || temp.innerText || "";