Posted by tech on August 28, 2008 |
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I found a handy Javascript function by Robert Nyman where you can remove HTML TAGS of of a text. It works well in both IE and Mozilla browsers so no problem for the user to worry about cross-browser issues. Thank you Robert, this saves us a bundle of time creating our own functions for this sort of need.
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| function removeHTMLTags(text) {
var strInputCode = text;
/*
This line is optional, it replaces escaped brackets with real ones,
i.e. < is replaced with < and > is replaced with >
*/
strInputCode = strInputCode.replace(/&(lt|gt);/g, function (strMatch, p1) {
return (p1 == “lt”)? “<” : “>”;
});
var strTagStrippedText = strInputCode.replace(/<\/?[^>]+(>|$)/g, “”);
//alert(”Output text:\n” + strTagStrippedText);
// Use the alert below if you want to show the input and the output text
// alert(”Input code:\n” + strInputCode + “\n\nOutput text:\n” + strTagStrippedText);
return strTagStrippedText;
} |
