Remove <script> tags from a string along with the content between them

Question

I have looked and looked and looked but I couldn't find anything on this. So lets say I have this string...

var str = '<script>blah blah blah</script><a>...</a><div>...</div><p>...</p>';

I need to strip out the script tags out of the string along with all the content between the tags. Once the script tag is stripped I need to append it to a textarea. How in the world do I do this with jQuery?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

since nobody else is going to post a simple and reliably-working routine, i guess i will:

function noscript(strCode){
   var html = $(strCode.bold()); 
   html.find('script').remove();
 return html.html();
}


alert(   noscript("<script>blah blah blah</script><div>blah blah blah</div>")    );
//shows: "<div>blah blah blah</div>"