remove mark tags from text javascript code example

Example 1: javascript strip html tags from string

var htmlString= "<div>\n <h1>Hello World</h1>\n <p>This is the text that we should get.</p>\n <p>Our Code World &#169; 2017</p>\n </div>";

var stripedHtml = htmlString.replace(/<[^>]+>/g, '');
var decodedStripedHtml = he.decode(stripedHtml);

// Hello World
// This is the text that we should get.
// Our Code World &#169; 2017
console.log(stripedHtml);

// Hello World
// This is the text that we should get.
// Our Code World © 2017
console.log(decodedStripedHtml);

Example 2: 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!"