From c34b56bc50977ea7bc5e38965485d57713c08ebf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miodec <jack@monkeytype.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:01:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] added a function to convert html to text

---
 frontend/src/ts/test/wikipedia.ts | 2 +-
 frontend/src/ts/utils/misc.ts     | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/frontend/src/ts/test/wikipedia.ts b/frontend/src/ts/test/wikipedia.ts
index cff00fb62..af993ad41 100644
--- a/frontend/src/ts/test/wikipedia.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/ts/test/wikipedia.ts
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ export async function getSection(language: string): Promise<Section> {
           sectionText = sectionText.replace(/<\/p><p>+/g, " ");
 
           // Convert HTML to text
-          sectionText = $("<div/>").html(sectionText).text();
+          sectionText = Misc.htmlToText(sectionText);
 
           // Remove reference links
           sectionText = sectionText.replace(/\[\d+\]/gi, "");
diff --git a/frontend/src/ts/utils/misc.ts b/frontend/src/ts/utils/misc.ts
index 50945bc6c..8d6cd25a4 100644
--- a/frontend/src/ts/utils/misc.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/ts/utils/misc.ts
@@ -1300,3 +1300,9 @@ export function areUnsortedArraysEqual(a: unknown[], b: unknown[]): boolean {
 export function areSortedArraysEqual(a: unknown[], b: unknown[]): boolean {
   return a.length === b.length && a.every((v, i) => v === b[i]);
 }
+
+export function htmlToText(html: string): string {
+  const el = document.createElement("div");
+  el.innerHTML = html;
+  return el.textContent || el.innerText || "";
+}