javascript remove html from text

1//remove html tags from a string, leaving only the inner text
2function removeHTML(str){ 
3    var tmp = document.createElement("DIV");
4    tmp.innerHTML = str;
5    return tmp.textContent || tmp.innerText || "";
6}
7var html = "<div>Yo Yo Ma!</div>";
8var onlyText = removeHTML(html); "Yo Yo Ma!"
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