How to remove only html tags in a string using javascript

Question

I want to remove html tags from given string using javascript. I looked into current approaches but there are some unsolved problems occured with them.

Current solutions

Answer 1

Here is my solution ,

function removeTags(){
    var txt = document.getElementById('myString').value;
    var rex = /(<([^>]+)>)/ig;
    alert(txt.replace(rex , ""));

}