jQuery remove tag from HTML String without RegEx

A very simple approach:

var html = '<span>Remove <b>tags &amp; entities</b></span>';
var noTagText = $(html).text();
// ==> noTagText = 'Remove tags & entities'

Note that it will remove tags but also html entities.

You can wrap your string in a jQuery object and do some sort of a manipulation like this:

var removeElements = function(text, selector) {
    var wrapped = $("<div>" + text + "</div>");
    wrapped.find(selector).remove();
    return wrapped.html();
}

USAGE

var removedSpanString = removeElements("<span>Some Text</span> Some other Text", "span");

The beauty of this approach is that you can specify a jquery selector which to remove. i.e. you may wish to remove the <th> in a string. This would be very handy in that case. Hope this helps!