TinyMCE- Get plain text

Question

In tinyMCE, Is there any way to get the plain text instead of HTML text?

Answer 1

I just tried this approach:

editor.getContent()
   .replace(/<[^>]*>/ig, ' ')
   .replace(/<\/[^>]*>/ig, ' ')
   .replace(/ | /gi, ' ')
   .replace(/\s+/ig, ' ')
   .trim();

• Replaces both opening and closing html tags with space
• Replaces various known special characters with space (add yours as well)
• Replaces multiple spaces with a single space

Worked reasonably well, but it is obviously not perfect. I need only an approximation of plain text for purposes of word counting, so I am willing to ignore corner cases such as having part of the word bold or italic (replacement above for ax will produce two separate words a b instead of ab).

It is an extension of Regular expression to remove HTML tags from a string

Hope that helps.