Nodejs HTML Strip stripHtml()

Method Source Code

//Assumption: this is to be written with a regular expression and 
//not processed by the browser, like this example.   
//var div = document.createElement("DIV");
//div.innerHTML = stringWithHtml;
//return div.textContent;

String.prototype.stripHtml = function () {
   //  [^>]    ([^x]) A negated or complemented character set. That is, it matches anything that is not enclosed in the brackets.
   //    +      Matches the preceding expression 1 or more times. 
   //  /i     Perform case-insensitive matching.
   //   /g       Perform a global match, finds all matches.
   "use strict";/*ww w .j  a v  a2s. c  om*/

   var htmlRegex = /(<([^>]+)>)/ig;
   return this.replace(htmlRegex, '');
};

Related

1. stripHTMLEntities()

   String.prototype.stripHTMLEntities = function() {
     var el = document.createElement("div");
     var html = this.replace(/<img/g, '<x-img');
     el.innerHTML = html;
     return el.innerText;
   

2. stripHtml()

   String.prototype.stripHtml = function() {
      var tmp = document.createElement("DIV");
      tmp.innerHTML = this;
      return tmp.textContent || tmp.innerText || "";
   };
   

3. stripHtml()

   String.prototype.stripHtml = function () {
       var _self = this.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/ig, '');
       return _self;
   

4. stripHtml()

   String.prototype.stripHtml = function() {
     return this.replace(/<[^>]+>/g, "");
   };
   console.assert("<p>Shoplifters of the World <em>Unite</em>!</p>".stripHtml() == "Shoplifters of the World Unite!");
   console.assert("1 &lt; 2".stripHtml() == "1 &lt; 2");
   

5. stripHtml()

   String.prototype.stripHtml = function () {
     return this.replace(/<(?:.|\n)*?>/gm, '');
   };
   

6. stripHtml()

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   String.prototype.stripHtml = function () {
       return this.replace(new RegExp(/<[^>]+>/g), "");
   };
   

7. stripTags()

   String.prototype.stripTags = function()
       return this.replace(/<\/?[^>]+>/gi, '');
   };
   

8. stripTags()

   String.prototype.stripTags = function () {
     return this.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/ig, "");
   };
   

9. stripTags()

   String.prototype.stripTags = function(){
     var entity = {
       quot: '"',
       lt: '<',
       gt: '>',
       nbsp: ' '
     };
     return function ( ) {
       return this.replace(/&([^&;]+);/g,
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