Extract the innerText from a snippet of HTML

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npm install innertext

Pass it a string containing some HTML.

var innertext = require('innertext');
var text = innertext('<h1>Heading text <em>with</em> <b>some</b> <u>markup</u></h1>');
console.log(text); // 'Heading text with some markup'

The current implementation favors speed and simplicity over other considerations like perfect web browser compatibility. For instance:

• malformed HTML (e.g., un-encoded < & > characters, etc...) will generally break the text extraction process
• whitespace around HTML tag/element boundaries gets collapsed into a single space, whereas browsers will typically preserve newlines

So if you trust the incoming HTML, things will typically be OK, but don't use this as the basis for creating a browser or anything.

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