title: How do you convert Html to plain text?
body: <p>I have snippets of Html stored in a table. <em>Not entire pages, no  tags or the like, just basic formatting.</em></p>
  
  <p>I would like to be able to display that Html as text only, <em>no formatting</em>, on a given page (actually just the first 30 - 50 characters but that's the easy bit).</p>
  
  <p>How do I place the "text" within that Html into a string as straight text?</p>
  
  <p>So this piece of code.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;b&gt;Hello World.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Is there anyone out there?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Becomes:</p>
  
  <p>Hello World. Is there anyone out there?</p>