Remove all HTMLtags in a string (with the jquery text() function)

Question

is it possible to use the jquery text() function to remove all HTML in a string?

String with HTML tags:
myContent = '<div id="test">Hello <span>world!</span></div>';

The result must be:
Hello world!

Answer 1

var myContent = '<div id="test">Hello <span>world!</span></div>';  alert($(myContent).text()); 

That results in hello world. Does that answer your question?

http://jsfiddle.net/D2tEf/ for an example