Remove HTML Tags from a string using jQuery or JavaScript

    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <input type="text" id="Text1" value="<table>abc</table>" />
    <input type="button" id="btn" value="Remove HTML" />
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $("#btn").live("click", function () {
            var html = $("#Text1").val();
            var text = RemoveHTML(html);
            alert(text);
        });
        function RemoveHTML(html) {
            return $("<div />").html(html).text();
        }
    </script>