To get the plain text of description field without HTML CSS style

[Rajagopal]

I am trying to generate a table to list out the project tasks and fields as mentioned in the documentation.
(https://developer.atlassian.com/static/connect/docs/latest/tutorials/project-activity-tutorial.html).

 The following text is generated when i tried to get the task description field in my table: 

RQKEY-3

Description {color:red}of{color} the *task*

(*above shows task key and its description) 

How do i get only the plain text of the task description field in table without getting the HTML tag and css like      "{color:red}"? (*even when style is applied i need to get only the text)

[Volodymyr Krupach]

What you get for the description is not HTML or CSS but JIRA wiki syntax. AFAIK there is no option to get issue description as plain text through JIRA REST API. One thing that you can try is to actually get rendered HTML instead of wiki markup by adding ?expand=renderedFields to the issue rest call. This will bring you description in HTML format and you can strip it from the tags: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/822452/strip-html-from-text-javascript