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shadowtime2000 •

Using Regex might be one of the worst ways to do this. A better way is to modify a DOM tree instead.

var elem = document.createElement("div");

elem.innerHTML = "ur text here";

Array.from(elem.children).forEach(child => {
    if (!(child.tagName === "a")) return;
    child.replaceWith(document.createTextNode(child.textContent));
})
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Giulia Chiola •

Thank you @shadowtime2000 , your way is definitely better 💪🏻 I updated the post adding your solution. Thanks!