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JavaScript: remove HTML tags
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strip-tags.js
function strip(html) {
const tempWrapper = document.createElement("DIV");
tempWrapper.innerHTML = html;
return tempWrapper.textContent || tempWrapper.innerText;
}
const html = '<p><strong>Lorem Ipsum<strong> is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.</p>';
const plainText = strip(html);
console.log(plainText);
// Output:
// Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
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