How to convert HTML to text without tags and special characters?

Question

I have a series of quotes that look like this:

<p>Being a graphic designer gets you used to rejection of your brilliance. So it&#8217;s good practice for dating.  </p>

I would like them to look like this:

 Being a graphic designer gets you used to rejection of your brilliance. So it's good practice for dating.

I tried using innerHTML, with limited success.

Answer 1

Create a temporary span element with the html content as string using document.createElement method. Later get the text content by getting the textContent property.

 var str = '<p>Being a graphic designer gets you used to rejection of your brilliance. So it&#8217;s good practice for dating. </p>'; // create a span element var temp = document.createElement('span'); // set the html to the element temp.innerHTML = str; // get the text content console.log(temp.textContent);