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I want to convert this string

<p>update this post</p>

to 

<p>update this post</p>

in Javascript.

Do you have any idea? Thanks in advance.

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  • @Paul That one is focused on a specific entity, in addition to using jQuery. It was also asked later than the first one. Commented Jan 6, 2013 at 9:39

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I'd create an element, set its innerHTML and get its innerText:

var element = document.createElement('div');
element.innerHTML = '&lt;p&gt;update this post&lt;/p&gt; ';
console.log(element.innerText);

The result is:

"<p>update this post</p> "
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This works fine for hardcoded values, but beware of using this for user input.
and, if you used jquery it would be as easy as this: $('<div />').html('&lt;p&gt;update this post&lt;/p&gt; ').text();
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Working example:

var text='&lt;p&gt;update this post&lt;/p&gt;';
var d = document.createElement("div");
d.innerHTML=text;
alert(d.innerText || d.text || d.textContent);
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You can use this method:

var param = '&lt;p&gt;update this post&lt;/p&gt'; 
unescape(param);
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The unescapefunction (which is deprecated because it can't handle Unicode properly) doesn't work on that form of escaping.

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