Remove HTML tags in a cell by a regex

The following Google Apps Script is designed to remove all HTML tags within the content of a cell by using a regular expression (regex). It was developed as a more advanced version of this HTML email body blog post in that it could dynamically remove various instances of HTML tags used (eg <font></font>, <br />, <strong></strong>) all in one go.

Screenshot of cell containing HTML tags and text

The regex uses 'replace' to identify the HTML tags and remove then (or technically replace them with nothing):

var cleanContent = cell.replace(/<[^>]+>/mg,"");

Regex - remove HTML tags.xlsx