Remove html tags from string using jquery [duplicate]

Question

i want to know how to remove html tags from a string using jquery, html looks like this

var string = '<p><marquee> some text </marquee>/p>';

now i want to remove all html tags and just want the plain text from it.

thank you

Tartori · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-22 15:09:23Z

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jQuery text() will help you like this :

var willbeequaltosometext = $("marquee").text();

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georg87 · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-24 16:44:03Z

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You could do this yust like this:

$('<p><marquee> some text </marquee></p>').text()

answered Sep 24, 2011 at 16:44

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4b0 · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-09 14:45:07Z

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try:

alert($('<li>Some text...</li>').text());

answered Nov 9, 2011 at 14:45

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