Question

I have following string in javascript.

str = '<a href="/display/1">This is link</a>';

I want to get "This is link" from above string but not succeeded.

I tried this also

str.innerHTML

but getting undefined

Answer 1

A string is not a DOM object.
The variable you have – str is a string, the innerHTML property only exists on DOM (Document Object Model) nodes, so you’ll have to convert to that first to use this approach.

var div = document.createElement('div');
div.innerHTML = str;
var domNode = div.firstChild;

var textYouWant = domNode.innerHTML;

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Or with jQuery

$(str).html();