I have a string like this:

Hello world!<br />this is a new day for us<br /><br />lorem ipsum dolor and more long string here

and I need to only show the first 15 characters.. how do I do that? if possible I want to use only vanilla js (no jquery)

I thought of these steps:

1. get rid of the html tags

2. use substr to truncate the string

but some people says that using regex myString.replace(/<[^>]*>?/gm, ''); in javascript to strip html tags is not 100% dependable.. (link here) so now I don't know what to do. any help is appreciated