Help removing html from variable

[TurboSRT4]

hello all! I am looking for help... I need to remove html code from variables. For example I have this.

document.change.n_first.value=document.getElementById('fname').innerHTML;

ass of right now
document.getElementById('fname').innerHTML;

is "<a href=link>please help me</a>

how can i remove the html tags from
document.getElementById('fname').innerHTML;

so that
document.getElementById('fname').innerHTML;
is simply "please help"

thank u guys

 

[mmerlinn]

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http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_obj_string.asp

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I would have thought that the answer was obvious, given you clearly know how to use "innerHTML" - instead of getting the innerHTML of the outer element, simply get the innerHTML of the anchor instead!

Dan



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[harrierdh]

<script>
var x = document.getElementById("fname").innerHTML;
var y = x.substr(x.indexOf(">") + 1, x.length - (x.indexOf(">") + 1));
y = y.substr(0, y.indexOf("<"));
document.getElementById("fname").innerHTML = y;
</script>

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Wow... talk about using a sledgehammer to crack a nut!



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[feherke]

Hi

I would say, using a nutcracker-sledgehammer to crack a nut. Because that sledgehammer will not work for a hazelnut like "<a href=link>please <b>help</b> me</a>".

Once I would just get the [tt]a[/tt] tag's [tt]innerHTML[/tt] as Dan suggested, but my experience turned me towards the regular expressions :

document[teal].[/teal][COLOR=darkgoldenrod]getElementById[/color][teal]([/teal][green][i]'fname'[/i][/green][teal]).[/teal]innerHTML[teal]=[/teal]document[teal].[/teal][COLOR=darkgoldenrod]getElementById[/color][teal]([/teal][green][i]'fname'[/i][/green][teal]).[/teal]innerHTML[teal].[/teal][COLOR=darkgoldenrod]replace[/color][teal]([/teal][fuchsia]/<[^<>]+>/g[/fuchsia][teal],[/teal][green][i]''[/i][/green][teal])[/teal]

[gray]// or shorter and faster[/gray]

[b]with[/b] [teal]([/teal]document[teal].[/teal][COLOR=darkgoldenrod]getElementById[/color][teal]([/teal][green][i]'fname'[/i][/green][teal]))[/teal] innerHTML[teal]=[/teal]innerHTML[teal].[/teal][COLOR=darkgoldenrod]replace[/color][teal]([/teal][fuchsia]/<[^<>]+>/g[/fuchsia][teal],[/teal][green][i]''[/i][/green][teal])[/teal]

Or you can use the [tt]textContent[/tt] property in Gecko ( FireFox, SeaMonkey, Galeon ), Presto ( Opera ), WebKit ( Safari, Chrome, Epiphany, Midori, Arora ), KHTML ( Konqueror ) :

[b]with[/b] [teal]([/teal]document[teal].[/teal][COLOR=darkgoldenrod]getElementById[/color][teal]([/teal][green][i]'fname'[/i][/green][teal]))[/teal] innerHTML[teal]=[/teal]textContent

Or the [tt]innerText[/tt] property in Presto ( Opera ), WebKit ( Safari, Chrome, Epiphany, Midori, Arora ), KHTML ( Konqueror ), Trident ( Explorer ) :

[b]with[/b] [teal]([/teal]document[teal].[/teal][COLOR=darkgoldenrod]getElementById[/color][teal]([/teal][green][i]'fname'[/i][/green][teal]))[/teal] innerHTML[teal]=[/teal]innerText

Feherke.

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