Javascript: Sanitize markdown

Question

I've got an article writed in markdown on my webpage and I want to show a short resume on the index page.

The problem is that the body has got markdown, and I want to show plain text on the resume.

Ex:

Article text: Hello people

Resume text: Hello people

How can I do that in Javascript?

Answer 1

What i might do is parse the markdown as HTML, then take only the textual content of it.

Psudeocode:

htmlElement.innerHtml = markdown.parse(myMarkDownString);
var plaintext = htmlElement.innerText;
alert(plaintext);