Remove all HTML with Regex in Javascript (not typical)

Question

Good day. I need to remove all HTML from text. The problem is - some attributes has "<" and ">" symbols in.

I use this rules:

var tmp = html.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/ig,"") // remove tags
          .replace(/\s/g, "" ); // inline

But its steal has some 0!"> from atributes. Please, see my example on JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/3nn9wmy7/

It's entirely typical, and you can't do it. [More here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/157247). — T.J. Crowder, Nov 12 '15 at 07:45
@Mariano: I don't like that question, since many answers on that question are unsafe. — nhahtdh, Nov 12 '15 at 07:58
I find unser from itsadok. Regex: <(?:"[^"]*"['"]*|'[^']*'['"]*|[^'">])+> — undefined, Nov 12 '15 at 08:04
@JKLMNS Would you mind explaining why? Regex is really [not the tool for this job](http://stackoverflow.com/q/590747/5290909). — Mariano, Nov 12 '15 at 08:15
@nhahtdh noted. I'll search for a more direct answer... there should be a link in the [wiki](http://stackoverflow.com/q/22937618/5290909) — Mariano, Nov 12 '15 at 08:25
@Mariano, yes, you right. Easy and right way is DOM menthods. But this is test conditions. — undefined, Nov 12 '15 at 08:25

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 12 '15 at 07:54

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It's not regex so please be gentle: in jQuery

$("*").text();

$("*") selects all elements .text() selects the text between tags

I hope you can go further from here

answered Nov 12 '15 at 07:54

online Thomas

Thanks for unswer, but i need only Regex. I find unser from itsadok. Regex: <(?:"[^"]*"['"]*|'[^']*'['"]*|[^'">])+> – undefined Nov 12 '15 at 08:04

score -3 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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<(?:"[^"]*"['"]*|'[^']*'['"]*|[^'">])+>

edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

Community

answered Nov 12 '15 at 08:03

undefined

This would fail with escaped quotes in a string, it would also fail with ``, as well as `<![CDATA[`... it would fail in many scenarios. – Mariano Nov 12 '15 at 08:23

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