innerHTML to plain text?

Hobbes

Trying to do a greasemonkey script and JS is not my area.

I have an innerHTML string that contains HTML tags. I want to remove them all so it is only the text.

Is there a way to do this?

sicruise

function removeHTMLTags(){
	if(document.getElementById && document.getElementById("input-code")){
		var strInputCode = document.getElementById("input-code").innerHTML;
		/* 
			This line is optional, it replaces escaped brackets with real ones, 
			i.e. &lt; is replaced with < and &gt; is replaced with >
		*/	
		strInputCode = strInputCode.replace(/&(lt|gt);/g, function (strMatch, p1){
			return (p1 == "lt")? "<" : ">";
		});
		var strTagStrippedText = strInputCode.replace(/<\/?[^>]+(>|$)/g, "");
		alert("Input code:\n" + strInputCode + "\n\nOutput text:\n" + strTagStrippedText);	
	}	
}

I found this here... http://robertnyman.com/roblab/javascript-remove-tags.htm

Hobbes

excellent! Cheers.