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jQuery / Regex: remove all p tags

I am new to Regex and hope someone can help me with the following:

I have a long string that is saved as a variable. The string contains plain text and HTML tags, incl. p tags.

How can I use Regex to remove all p tags from my string including classes and IDs on the p tags but without losing the text inside ? The string variable can contain one, multiple or no p tags but always contains at least some text.

Example: How it looks now: 

var str = Some awesome text with a <p class='myClass'>new paragraph</p> and more text.

How it should look: 

var str = Some awesome text with a new paragraph and more text.

Thanks for any help with this, Tim.

Solution 
  • result = str.replace(/(<p[^>]+?>|<p>|<\/p>)/img, "");

    updated regex