JS Regex to replace all html tags

Question

i have spent a while researching this and cant find a solution, i am looking for a method to remove all html tags from a string and if img tags appear, then replace them with just the src attribute, sorry for little information. Thanks.

Answer 1

First do a regex replace, replacing this

<img.+?src="(.+?)".*?>

with this \\1 . That will replace the whole img tags with just the contents of the src attribute.

Then do the replacement for all the rest of the tags using this

<.+?>

and replace with nothing/blank.

Answer 2

I think something like this might be what you need:

 var str = "<b>TEST</b> <p><img src='path.png' /> boom <span>sss</span></p>"; var text = $(str).find('img').replaceWith(function() { return $(this).attr('src'); }).end().text(); alert(text); 

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