javascript remove html from text code example

Example: 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 = "
Yo Yo Ma!
";
var onlyText = removeHTML(html); "Yo Yo Ma!"