extract html tag from string javascript code example

Example 1: javascript remove html from text

//remove html tags from a string, leaving only the inner text
function removeHTML(str){ 
    var tmp = document.createElement("DIV");
    tmp.innerHTML = str;
    return tmp.textContent || tmp.innerText || "";
}
var html = "<div>Yo Yo Ma!</div>";
var onlyText = removeHTML(html); "Yo Yo Ma!"

Example 2: pull out only text from element javascript

function extractContent(html) {

    return (new DOMParser).parseFromString(html, "text/html") . 
        documentElement . textContent;

}