If you just want the "string" value, how about:
var content = $("#content").val();
content = content.replace(/ target=(\'|\")_(new|blank)(\'|\")/, "");
content = content.replace(/ border=(\'|\")\d+(\'|\")/, "");
-Eric
On Nov 17, 10:18 am, cc96ai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
