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Strip HTML Tags in JavaScript

var StrippedString = OriginalString.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/ig,"");

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  1. Dango

    Your script works great! Cheers!

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  2. admire

    this is so cool , i like it

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  3. John Doe

    /**
    * isArray
    *
    * @param mixed input
    * @return bol
    */

    function is_array(obj) {
    if (obj.constructor.toString().indexOf(‘Array’) == -1) {
    return false;
    }
    return true;
    }

    /**
    * stripTags
    *
    * @param mixed input
    * @parm mixed output
    */

    function strip_tags(input) {
    if (input) {
    var tags = /(]+)>)/ig;
    if (!is_array(input)) {
    input = input.replace(tags,”);
    }
    else {
    var i = input.length;
    var newInput = new Array();
    while(i–) {
    input[i] = input[i].replace(tags,”);
    }
    }
    return input;
    }
    return false;
    }

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  4. Pushpinder Bagga

    function strip(html)
    {
    var tmp = document.createElement("DIV");
    tmp.innerHTML = html;
    return tmp.textContent || tmp.innerText;
    }

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    • JC

      This was even better for my needs. No issues with special characters etc…

  5. derek

    hey!!!..this is so ridiculous..

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  6. Eugene

    Thank you for great example

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  7. Sebastian

    Thanks, this does exactly what I need (and so concisely, too!)

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  8. Ian

    Thanks! A quick note about the regexp: the “i” isn’t needed here because there are no characters to be case-insensitive about. However, it does exactly what you want either way.

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  9. pols

    your code works perfectly.. Thanks.. :)

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  10. Porter

    Nice, but the parentheses are unnecessary.

    .replace(/<[^>]+>/ig,”");

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  11. Florian Ricard

    Hi :)

    I saw your contact form and i must say i love it!
    Do you have a tutorial or something like that? It’s a wonderful one :)^
    Hope to hear some news of you,

    A french reader,

    Florian

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  12. Truong Duong

    Thank for script :)

    @Ricard: If you want to make a copy of the contact form, just view source or save this page to you local ;)

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  13. Amit Sidhpura

    Words like a charm!!

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  14. jeu-jeu-jeu.net

    beautul site thank you for great example

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  15. DScout

    the /i for case insensitivity is definitely recommended.
    When using contenteditable, IE produces upper case tags, mozilla would only create lower case… To strip those you need it case insensitive.

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  16. Sadia

    Hi

    I have following code:

    var text = ‘[$ ssIncludeXml(docName,"wcm:root/wcm:element[@name='innerpage_content']/text()”) $]’;
    var StrippedString = text.replace(/(]+)>)/ig,”");

    where ‘[$ ssIncludeXml(docName,"wcm:root/wcm:element[@name='innerpage_content']/text()”) $]’
    is Idoc script that brings a block of HTML from a placeholder. But i am getting “unterminated string literal” Error at first line.

    What i want to do is to remove or strip all HTML tags and to get plain text out of that markup.

    Kindly let me know if there is any solution.

    Thanks

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  17. JOhn

    works great but doest strip whitespaces….  

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  18. Valutar BNR

    Thank you! It was very useful for me and I think that is useful for everyone.
    Thank you again!

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  19. Elliott

    Yeah, this solution removed all sorts of HTML, paragraph, line breaks, in-line styles etc etc

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  20. reena upadhyay

    This does not works for IE. Please provide solution to strip tag in javascript that works for all browsers

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  21. Shilpa Agrawal

    Thanks for this script
    It work greate

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  22. Sunil Dabhi

    great script its working
    thanks

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  23. Ammar

    i am trying it on

    var message;

    firstName = document.getElementById(“username”).value;

    if (firstName == null || firstName == “” || firstName == NaN || firstName == “First Name”) {
    message = “Please Add some name.”;
    document.body.insertAdjacentHTML(“BeforeEnd”, “” + message + “”);
    }
    else {
    if (document.getElementById(“myMessage”)) {
    debugger;
    arguments = document.getElementById(“myMessage”).value.replace(/(]+)>)/ig, “”);
    }
    }

    but it is not working and saying

    cannot call method ‘replace’ of undefined

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  24. Ryan Mc Closkey

    Was wondering how this would be implemented if I only wanted to remove the href tags from a string of text, instead of removing all the tags? I’m trying to retrieve a page of text from a website but I only want the plain text with the formatting tags (p, ul, li).
    Hope this makes sense, thanks in advance.

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