Remove HTML Tags in Javascript with Regex

Question

I am trying to remove all the html tags out of a string in Javascript. Heres what I have... I can't figure out why its not working....any know what I am doing wrong?

<script type="text/javascript">  var regex = "/<(.|\n)*?>/"; var body = "<p>test</p>"; var result = body.replace(regex, ""); alert(result);  </script> 

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Try this, noting that the grammar of HTML is too complex for regular expressions to be correct 100% of the time:

var regex = /(<([^>]+)>)/ig ,   body = "<p>test</p>" ,   result = body.replace(regex, "");  console.log(result); 

If you're willing to use a library such as jQuery, you could simply do this:

console.log($('<p>test</p>').text());