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Geekpedia » JavaScript Code » Strip HTML using JavaScript

Strip HTML using JavaScript

A simple function that uses regular expressions to strip the HTML tags out of strings.

On Saturday, September 29th 2007 at 10:23 PM

By Andrew Pociu (View Profile)

(Rated 3.2 with 6 votes)

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<html>
<head>
<title>Strip HTML</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
String.prototype.stripHTML = function()
{
        // What a tag looks like
        var matchTag = /<(?:.|\s)*?>/g;
        // Replace the tag
        return this.replace(matchTag, "");
};
 
function ShowStrippedText()
{
        var sourceInput = document.getElementById("textSource");
        var destInput = document.getElementById("textDestination");
        // Set the destination text area to the value of the newly stripped HTML
        destInput.value = sourceInput.value.stripHTML();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<textarea id="textSource" rows="10" cols="80"><i>Some Sample <b>HTML</b> in here</i></textarea><br />
<input type="button" value="Strip HTML" onclick="ShowStrippedText()" /><br />
<textarea id="textDestination" rows="10" cols="80"></textarea>
</body>
</html>

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Current Comments

by michael on Friday, August 1st 2008 at 12:01 PM

How can I use this after the form is submitted to print out plain text in email?

by Amol on Monday, November 17th 2008 at 06:26 AM

this is really nice code

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