Remove all HTMLtags in a string with the jquery text function

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is it possible to use the jquery text   function to remove all HTML in a string   String with HTML tags myContent     lt div id  test  gt Hello  lt span gt world  lt  span gt  lt  div gt      The result must be  Hello world

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I found in my specific case that I just needed to trim the content  Maybe not the answer asked in the question  But I thought I should add this answer anyway     myContent  text   trim

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I created this test case  http   jsfiddle net ccQnK 1    I used the Javascript replace function with regular expressions to get the results that you want     document  ready function         var myContent     lt div id  test  gt Hello  lt span gt world  lt  span gt  lt  div gt        alert myContent replace    lt     gt     gt   ig

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var myContent     lt div id  test  gt Hello  lt span gt world  lt  span gt  lt  div gt     alert   myContent  text       That results in hello world  Does that answer your question   http   jsfiddle net D2tEf  for an example

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If you need to remove the HTML but does not know if it actually contains any HTML tags  you can t use the jQuery method directly because it returns empty wrapper for non-HTML text       lt div gt Hello world lt  div gt    text      returns  Hello world     Hello world   text      returns empty string      You must either wrap the text in valid HTML       lt div gt      Hello world      lt  div gt    text      Or use method   parseHTML    since jQuery 1 8  that can handle both HTML and non-HTML text   var html     parseHTML  Hello world      parseHTML return HTMLCollection var text     html  text      use     to get  text   method   Plus parseHTML removes script tags completely which is useful as anti-hacking protection for user inputs       lt p gt Hello world lt  p gt  lt script gt console log document cookie  lt  script gt    text      returns  Hello worldconsole log document cookie        parseHTML   lt p gt Hello world lt  p gt  lt script gt console log document cookie  lt  script gt     text      returns  Hello world

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Could you not just try it   myContent     lt div id  test  gt Hello  lt span gt world  lt  span gt  lt  div gt    console log   myContent  text       Prints  Hello world     Note that you need to wrap the string in a jQuery object  otherwise it won t have a text method obviously

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Another option        lt p gt    html myContent  text

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

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