If you want to strip HTML from your element use this function.
(function($) {
$.fn.stripHtml = function() {
var regexp = /<("[^"]*"|'[^']*'|[^'">])*>/gi;
this.each(function() {
$(this).html(
$(this).html().replace(regexp,”")
);
});
return $(this);
}
})(jQuery);
//usage:
$('p').stripHtml();
