http://www.thetruetribe.com/2009/07/stripping-out-html-tags-in-jquery/ Vroom! That's us leaving IE in the dust. Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:30:24 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.thetruetribe.com/2009/07/stripping-out-html-tags-in-jquery/comment-page-1/#comment-246 Jeff Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:50:13 +0000 http://wordpress.thetruetribe.com/?p=53#comment-246 I think the simplest way to strip tags would be very similar to how you do it, something like: jQuery('<div>').html(html).text() . This is the opposite of what I use to escape html characters in text: jQuery('<div>').text(notHtml).html() . A string like 'a <b>b</b>' run through the first one would give 'a b', while the second would give 'a <b>b</b>'. I think the simplest way to strip tags would be very similar to how you do it, something like: jQuery(‘<div>’).html(html).text() . This is the opposite of what I use to escape html characters in text: jQuery(‘<div>’).text(notHtml).html() . A string like ‘a <b>b</b>’ run through the first one would give ‘a b’, while the second would give ‘a &lt;b&gt;b&lt;/b&gt;’.

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