innertext

Extract the innerText from a snippet of HTML

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import innertext from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/innertext';
</script>

README

innertext

Extract the innerText from a snippet of HTML

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Installation

npm install innertext

Usage

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'

Correctness

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.

Tests

npm install
npm test

License

ISC