How to strip HTML tags from div content using Javascript/jQuery?

Question

I had made one div tag and stored its contents in a variable. If this tag contains p,b or any other tags then it should be removed from string. How

Answer 1

I would like to add a few things on top of the accepted answer which is suggesting the regex var regex = /(<([^>]+)>)/ig:

• you don't need the i flag in your regex as you don't match any alphabetic character. See here: http://jsfiddle.net/66L6nfwt/2/
• you don't need any pair of brackets as you just replace with nothing the whole match. See here: http://jsfiddle.net/66L6nfwt/3/
• This regex can be improved as it will fail if you use both chars < and > in your text content. See here: http://jsfiddle.net/66L6nfwt/4/
• So here is a regex improvement: /<\/?\w+[^>]*\/?>/g. See here: http://jsfiddle.net/66L6nfwt/5/

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Final code:

var regex = /<\/?\w+[^>]*\/?>/g,
    body = "test sss what if you write some maths: i < 2 && i > 4.";

alert(body.replace(regex, ""));

It can also be helpful to place the function in the built-in 'String' class so you can do this directly :

"test".stripTags()

String.prototype.stripTags = function()
{
    return this.replace(/<\/?\w+[^>]*\/?>/g, '');
};

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Eventually, if your string is a DOM node, you can do alert(element.innerText || element.textContent); which is built-in and even safer! See example here: http://jsfiddle.net/66L6nfwt/6/