To remove all HTML tags from a string, we can use the replace() string method in JavaScript.
TL;DR
// string with html tags
const str = "<div><h1>Hello World!</h1></div>";
// remove all html tags from string
str.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/gi, ""); // Hello World
For example, let' say we have a string with some HTML tags in them like this,
// string with html tags
const str = "<div><h1>Hello World!</h1></div>";
Our goal is to remove the div, h1, etc tags present in the string. So let's use the replace() string method and pass:
- a regex expression of
/(<([^>]+)>)/igas the first argument which will remove all the tags such as<>and</>and text inside it. - and an empty string as the second argument to say that we just want to replace the matched characters with an empty string.
It can be done like this,
// string with html tags
const str = "<div><h1>Hello World!</h1></div>";
// remove all html tags from string
const strWithoutHTmlTags = str.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/gi, "");
console.log(strWithoutHTmlTags); // Hello World!
And we have successfully removed all HTML tags from the string. 😃
See the above code live in JSBin
