Strip HTML Tags
Copying content from web pages, CMS editors, or email templates often brings along unwanted HTML markup that clutters your text. This free HTML tag stripper removes every opening, closing, and self-closing tag from your input and returns clean, readable plain text. Choose to preserve line breaks so that paragraph and heading tags convert to newlines, or strip everything for a single continuous block. Common HTML entities like & and are automatically decoded. After cleaning your HTML, count the remaining words with the Word Counter. Everything runs in your browser, so your data never leaves your device. Paste your markup, pick your options, and copy the result in one click. Need to find specific text in the cleaned output? Try Find and Replace for quick edits. Ideal for developers, content writers, and anyone working with raw HTML who needs plain text fast.
How to Use This Tool
- Paste your HTML content into the input box. The tool accepts any valid or malformed HTML markup.
- Toggle the "Preserve line breaks" option if you want block-level tags like <p>, <br>, and headings converted to newlines instead of being removed entirely.
- The tool instantly strips all tags and displays the clean plain text output alongside a count of how many tags were removed.
- Click the copy button to grab the plain text and use it wherever you need it.
Examples
Basic HTML stripping
Input
<h1>Welcome</h1> <p>This is a <strong>bold</strong> paragraph.</p>
Output (4 tags removed)
Welcome This is a bold paragraph.
Stripping a list with entities
Input
<ul> <li>Apples & oranges</li> <li>Price < $5</li> </ul>
Output (6 tags removed)
Apples & oranges Price < $5
Email template cleanup
Input
<div style="font-family:Arial"> <p>Hi <b>John</b>,</p> <p>Your order is confirmed.<br/>Thank you!</p> </div>
Output (8 tags removed)
Hi John, Your order is confirmed. Thank you!
What This Tool Is Useful For
- Extracting clean text from blog posts, articles, or web pages copied from a browser or CMS editor.
- Cleaning up HTML email templates to get the plain text version for multipart email sending.
- Preparing raw text from HTML exports for import into plain text systems, databases, or spreadsheets.
- Removing markup from code snippets or documentation before pasting into chat, tickets, or text editors.
- Quickly checking the actual text content of a web page without visual formatting distractions.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Does the tool handle nested or malformed HTML?
- Yes. The regex-based stripping removes all content between angle brackets regardless of nesting or whether tags are properly closed, so even messy HTML is cleaned effectively.
- Can I preserve paragraph structure when stripping tags?
- Yes. Enable the "Preserve line breaks" option and block-level tags like <p>, <div>, <br>, and headings will be converted to newlines before removal, maintaining your text structure.
- Are HTML entities decoded automatically?
- Yes. Common entities including &, <, >, ", ', and are decoded to their plain text equivalents automatically.
- Does the tool remove inline CSS and JavaScript?
- The tool removes all tags including <style> and <script> tags. However, the text content between script or style tags will remain. For best results, remove script and style blocks before pasting.
- Is my data sent to a server?
- No. All processing runs locally in your browser using JavaScript. Your HTML content never leaves your device, making this tool safe for sensitive or confidential data.
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