javascript strip html from string 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: remove html between 2 tags javas

var myString = "<table><tr><td>Some text ...<a href='#'>label...</a></td></tr></table";
myString += "<table><tr><td>Some text ...<a href='#'>label...</a></td></tr></table";
myString += "<table><tr><td>Some text ...<a href='#'>label...</a></td></tr></table";

console.log(myString);

var anchorTagsRemoved = myString.replace(/<a.*>.*?<\/a>/ig,'');
console.log(anchorTagsRemoved);