JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<textarea id="textareaid"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://stackoverflow.com//questions/ask">http://stackoverflow.com//questions/ask</a> - good page </textarea>

JavaScript

function strip(html)
{
   var tmp = document.createElement("DIV");
   tmp.innerHTML = html;
   return tmp.textContent||tmp.innerText;
}
jQuery('#textareaid').text(function(index, old){
 return strip(old);
});