remove HTML from a string (in JSON response)

Question

var json = {
    "Item": {
        "Items": {
         "Body": "<SPAN style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">\"We have all been inoculated with Christianity, and are never likely to take it seriously now! You put some of the virus of some dreadful illness into a man's arm, and there is a little itchiness, some scratchiness, a slight discomfort, disagreeable, no doubt, but not the fever of the real disease, the turning and the tossing, and the ebbing strength. And we have all been inoculated with Christianity, more or less. We are on Christ's side, we wish him well, we hope that He will win, and we are even prepared to do something for Him, provided, of course, that He is reasonable, and does not make too much of an upset among our cozy comforts and our customary ways. But there is not the passion of zeal, and the burning enthusiasm, and the eagerness of self-sacrifice, of the real faith that changes character and wins the world.\"<B>A.J. Gossip<\/B><\/SPAN>",
        },

    }
};
var someString = json.Item.Body.replace(/<br\s*\/?\s*>/g,"\n");   
alert(someString);
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I am getting HTML tags in my response, which i should remove or parse it. How can i go about this. I did for BR tags, but now it seems there are other tags too coming in.

Answer 1

I think all you need is a simple regex to strip html style tags from the content. Try this.

str.replace(/<\/?[^>]+>/gi, '')

Answer 2

This should do the magic http://jsfiddle.net/Ygfvp/ Anyway it won't strip the html comments