diff --git a/view/theme/frio/js/mod_events.js b/view/theme/frio/js/mod_events.js
index 4e900d06ca..5bd7c94498 100644
--- a/view/theme/frio/js/mod_events.js
+++ b/view/theme/frio/js/mod_events.js
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
 							event.item['author-avatar'],
 							event.item['author-name'],
 							event.item.desc,
-							formatEventLocationText(event.item.location)
+							htmlToText(event.item.location)
 					));
 				break;
 				case "agendaDay":
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
 							event.item['author-avatar'],
 							event.item['author-name'],
 							event.item.desc,
-							formatEventLocationText(event.item.location)
+							htmlToText(event.item.location)
 					));
 					break;
 				case "listMonth":
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ function eventHoverHtmlContent(event) {
 
 	// Get only template data if there exists location data
 	if (event.item.location) {
-		var eventLocationText = formatEventLocationText(event.item.location);
+		var eventLocationText = htmlToText(event.item.location);
 		// Get the the html template for formatting the location
 		var eventLocationTemplate = eventHoverLocationTemplate();
 		// Format the event location data according to the the event location
@@ -252,18 +252,3 @@ function formatListViewEvent(event) {
 
 	return formatted;
 }
-
-// Format event location in pure text
-function formatEventLocationText(location) {
-	// Friendica can store the event location as text or as html
-	// We need to check if the location is html. In this case we need
-	// to transform it into clean text
-	if (location.startsWith("<div")) {
-		var locationHtml = $.parseHTML( location );
-		var eventLocationText = locationHtml[0]['innerText'];
-	} else {
-		var eventLocationText = location.replace("<br>", " ");
-	};
-
-	return eventLocationText;
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/view/theme/frio/js/theme.js b/view/theme/frio/js/theme.js
index ffe82c24a5..8fbee06e51 100644
--- a/view/theme/frio/js/theme.js
+++ b/view/theme/frio/js/theme.js
@@ -570,3 +570,13 @@ function scrollToItem(itemID) {
 		$(elm).animate(colWhite, 1000).animate(colShiny).animate(colWhite, 600);
 	});
 }
+
+// format a html string to pure text
+function htmlToText(htmlString) {
+	// Replace line breaks with spaces
+	var text = htmlString.replace(/<br>/g, ' ');
+	// Strip the text out of the html string
+	text = text.replace(/<[^>]*>/g, '');
+
+	return text;
+}