striptags() #handlebars #helper #cc

handlebars.striptags.js

// This doesn't work for me
Handlebars.registerHelper("striptags", function( txt ){
	// exit now if text is undefined 
	if(typeof txt == "undefined") return;
	// the regular expresion
	var regexp = new RegExp('#([^\\s]*)','g');
	// replacing the text
	return txt.replace(regexp, '');
	
});

// So finally I've made this
// Based on https://github.com/kvz/phpjs/blob/master/functions/strings/strip_tags.js
Handlebars.registerHelper("striptags", function( input ){
    var tags = /<\/?([a-z][a-z0-9]*)\b[^>]*>/gi,
        commentsAndPhpTags = /<!--[\s\S]*?-->|<\?(?:php)?[\s\S]*?\?>/gi;

    return input.replace(commentsAndPhpTags, "")
        .replace(tags, "");
});