Code for Strip Html Tags

Javascript Code to Strip HTML tags from string

   1: function StripHTMLAndTrim(text) 

   2:   {

   3:     var htmlStriper = /<(?:.|\s)*?>/g;

   4:     text = text.replace(htmlStriper, " ");

   5:     while (text.indexOf("  ") >= 0) 

   6:         {

   7:             text = text.replace("  ", " ");

   8:         }

   9:     return text.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "");

  10:   }