Question

I have a string in JavaScript and it includes an a tag with an href. I want to remove all links and the text. I know how to just remove the link and leave the inner text but I want to remove the link completely.

For example:

var s = "check this out <a href='http://www.google.com'>Click me</a>. cool, huh?";

I would like to use a regex so I’m left with:

s = "check this out. cool, huh?";

Answer 1

This will strip out everything between <a and /a>:

mystr = "check this out <a href='http://www.google.com'>Click me</a>. cool, huh?";
alert(mystr.replace(/<a\b[^>]*>(.*?)<\/a>/i,""));

It’s not really foolproof, but maybe it’ll do the trick for your purpose…