How to remove HTML tags with RegExp in JavaScript?

Last Updated : 06 Sep, 2019

Here, the task is to remove the HTML tags from the string. Here string contains a part of the document and we need to extract only the text part from it. Here we are going to do that with the help of JavaScript.

Approach:

Take the string in a variable.
Anything between the less than symbol and the greater than symbol is removed from the string by the RegExp.
Finally we will get the text.

Example 1: This example using the approach defined above.

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
  
<head>
    <title>
        How to remove HTML tags with RegExp in JavaScript?
    </title>
</head>
  
<body id="body" style="text-align:center;">
    <h1 style="color:green;">  
            GeeksForGeeks  
        </h1>
    <p id="GFG_UP" 
       style="font-size: 15px;
              font-weight: bold;">
    </p>
    <button onclick="GFG_Fun()">
        click here
    </button>
    <p id="GFG_DOWN" 
       style="color:green;
              font-size: 20px;
              font-weight: bold;">
    </p>
    <script>
        var up = document.getElementById('GFG_UP');
        var str2 = '<p> GeeksForGeeks </p>';
        
        // same as the str2. 
        var str1 = "< p > GeeksForGeeks < /p >"; 
        up.innerHTML = "Click on button to remove the "+
          "HTML tags from the string.<br>String = '" + str1 + "'";
        var down = document.getElementById('GFG_DOWN');
  
        function GFG_Fun() {
            var regex = /( |<([^>]+)>)/ig;
            down.innerHTML = str2.replace(regex, "");
        }
    </script>
</body>
  
</html>

Output:

Before clicking on the button:
After clicking on the button:

Example 2: This example using the approach defined above but by a different RegExp.

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
  
<head>
    <title>
        How to remove HTML tags 
      with RegExp in JavaScript?
    </title>
</head>
  
<body id="body" style="text-align:center;">
    <h1 style="color:green;">  
            GeeksForGeeks  
        </h1>
    <p id="GFG_UP" 
       style="font-size: 15px;
              font-weight: bold;">
    </p>
    <button onclick="GFG_Fun()">
        click here
    </button>
    <p id="GFG_DOWN" 
       style="color:green; 
              font-size: 20px;
              font-weight: bold;">
    </p>
    <script>
        var up = document.getElementById('GFG_UP');
        var str2 = '<p> GeeksForGeeks </p>';
         
        // same as the str2.
        var str1 = "< p > GeeksForGeeks < /p >";  
        up.innerHTML = "Click on button to remove the HTML"+
          " tags from the string.<br>String = '" + str1 + "'";
        var down = document.getElementById('GFG_DOWN');
  
        function GFG_Fun() {
            var regex = /(<([^>]+)>)/ig;
            down.innerHTML = str2.replace(regex, "");
        }
    </script>
</body>
  
</html>

Output:

Before clicking on the button:
After clicking on the button:

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