Question

I am trying to remove all the html tags out of a string in Javascript.
Heres what I have… I can’t figure out why its not working….any know what I am doing wrong?

<script type="text/javascript">

var regex = "/<(.|\n)*?>/";
var body = "<p>test</p>";
var result = body.replace(regex, "");
alert(result);

</script>

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Try this, noting that the grammar of HTML is too complex for regular expressions to be correct 100% of the time:

var regex = /(<([^>]+)>)/ig
,   body = "<p>test</p>"
,   result = body.replace(regex, "");

console.log(result);

If you’re willing to use a library such as jQuery, you could simply do this:

console.log($('<p>test</p>').text());