How to Strip HTML from a String in JavaScript

In the scope of this tutorial, we are going to show two approaches to stripping an HTML from a string in JavaScript.

The function can execute inline JavaScript codes:

JavaScript strip HTML from a string

If you are running in a browser, it is best to use DOMParser:

JavaScript strip HTML from a string

function strip(html) {
  let doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(html, 'text/html');
  return doc.body.textContent || "";
}

Unlike the div.innerHTML approach, DOMParser does not request external resources (such as images) during parsing.

DOMParser

The DOMParser interface allows parsing XML or HTML source code from a string into a DOM Document. XMLHttpRequest parses XML and HTML directly from a URL-addressable resource and returns a Document in its response property.