I have a text area in the following <textarea cols="50" rows="5" id="content"> <a id="link" href="http://www.google.ca" target="_new">test link</a> <img src="images/test.jpg" border="1" vspace="2" alt="test"> </textarea>
and I would like to strip out the hyperlink target, and image border, and get the string of the HTML, any idea on it? I try the following, but it only remove the hyperlink in the page, not the hyperlink in textarea. $("a").removeAttr("target"); Can I load the textarea 's content in jquery, then do the select/ remove the attribute and return as string? Thanks