Remove HTML Tags in Javascript with Regex

javascript, regex

Solution

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());

Problem

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!

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