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HTML
<div id="element">
</div>
JavaScript
var jsonObject = {};
jsonObject.someString = "<a href='example.com'>foobar</a>";
jsonObject.someString = jsonObject.someString.replace(/<[\/]{0,1}(a|A)[^><]*>/g,"");
console.log("sripedString: " + jsonObject.someString);