HTML Tags Stripper

HTML Tags Stripper turns HTML into clean, readable plain text. It reads the markup the way a browser does, removes every tag, throws away the contents of <script> and <style> blocks, turns entities such as & and   back into normal characters, and keeps paragraphs, line breaks and list bullets so the text stays easy to read. Everything happens in your browser.

How to use the HTML Tags Stripper

1. Paste your HTML into the box: a whole page source, an email template or a snippet copied from a CMS.
2. Leave Keep paragraphs, line breaks and list bullets on for readable text, or turn it off to get everything on one line.
3. Click Strip Tags, check the result, and click Copy.

What happens to your HTML

• Tags are removed, including their attributes, classes and inline styles.
• Scripts, styles and hidden templates are dropped completely, not left behind as stray code, as a simple "remove anything between angle brackets" approach would do.
• Entities are decoded: & becomes &, " becomes ",   becomes a normal space.
• Structure is kept: headings and paragraphs are separated by blank lines, <br> becomes a line break, list items get a bullet and table cells are separated by tabs, so you can paste tables into a spreadsheet.
• Nothing runs: the HTML is parsed as an inert document, so scripts in it are never executed.

When it comes in handy

• Getting the plain text out of an HTML email or a page's source code.
• Cleaning formatted text before pasting it into a CMS, a plain-text email or a form that rejects HTML.
• Counting the real words in a page: strip it, then use Word Count.
• Preparing text for translation, AI tools or analysis without markup noise.

Related tools

• HTML Entity Decode decodes entities without removing the tags.
• Text Cleaner removes extra spaces, empty lines and odd characters from plain text.
• Markdown to HTML goes the other way, from text to markup.

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