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String.prototype.stripTags goes through a string; removes tags and comments based on a regular expression (/<\/?[^>]+>/gi); and returns a copy of the string sans tags. Useful in many situations, such as where the text of a HTML string needs to be displayed as an alert.

Syntax


  string.stripTags();

Returns

A copy of string, sans tags.

Example


<script type="text/javascript">
   var stringTags = '<p><strong>This</strong> <em>is</em> ' + 
                    '<!-- Comment --> <b>a</b> <i>paragraph</i>.</p>';
   var stringNoTags = stringTags.stripTags();
      // stringNoTags = 'This is a paragraph.';

   stringNoTags = '<p>This <em>is</em> <b>a</b> <i>paragraph</i>.</p>'.stripTags();
      // stringNoTags = 'This is a paragraph.';
</script>

stringNoTags is equal to ‘This is a paragraph.’.

stringTags remains equal to ’This is <!—Comment—> a paragraph.’.

Notes

Because String.prototype.stripTags does not actually validate the HTML, partial and/or broken tags may result in stripping more than expected.