Get whole text from web-page using JavaScript

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I am new to JavaScript, and I want to know if there is a way, or ways, to get the whole text from a web-page, which means the text a person can read on a webpage (excluding any images' text).

Taryn · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-28 14:11:13Z

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You should be able to use:

document.body.innerText;

edited Dec 28, 2013 at 14:11

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answered Sep 24, 2012 at 9:14

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vaibhav.dec Over a year ago

Hi, Thanks for ur quick reply this is working but i m getting some squire boxes type text. how can i remove these..

defau1t Over a year ago

share the url where you are getting square boxes.

defau1t Over a year ago

If you are talking about the square boxes on the botom of SO. then these are html entries there.

vaibhav.dec Over a year ago

I am using below scrip String s = "var allLinks = document.getElementsByTagName('*'); " + "var str = document.body.innerText.replace(/\\s*/g, ' ');" + //.replace(/\\s*/g, ' ');" //replace(/</?[a-zA-Z0-9]+>|<[a-zA-Z0-9]+\\s*/>|\r?\\n/g,' ') "alert(str);"; And at yahoo.com I m getting the [][][][][] type boxes.

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