Remove html tags from a string

Java

String html_stripped = html.replaceAll("\\<.*?\\>", "");

PHP

strip_tags($html);  
// built-in PHP function to strip HTML and PHP tags

Javascript

var html_stripped = html.replace(/(<.*?>)/ig,"");

3 thoughts on “Remove html tags from a string”

Yuran says:

April 1, 2010 at 11:58 pm

Great Work ! Short And Sweet Keep Going
happynuclear says:

February 4, 2011 at 2:00 pm

Thanks for this – very nice little piece of code and very muchly appreciated!
nikhil says:

March 17, 2011 at 4:58 am

100% works

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