🏷️ Strip HTML Tags (HTML → Plain Text)
Strip the HTML tags out of pasted markup or scraped content and get clean, readable plain text, entities decoded, whitespace tidied.
How the strip html tags (html → plain text) works
The tool removes script and style blocks entirely, turns block-level tags (paragraphs, list items, line breaks, headings) into newlines, strips the remaining tags, decodes HTML entities like &, and numeric references, and collapses leftover whitespace. What’s left is the readable text content. Because the parsing distinguishes block elements from inline ones, headings, paragraphs and list items become separate lines while inline tags like <strong> or <a> are removed without breaking the sentence; comments and doctype declarations are discarded, and multiple blank lines are collapsed.
A fast, deterministic way to get plain text out of rich-text or scraped HTML, the kind of exact cleanup that is tedious by hand and unreliable to ask an AI for.
Frequently asked questions
How do I remove HTML tags from text?
Paste the HTML and the tool returns the text with all tags removed, entities decoded, and whitespace tidied. Block elements become line breaks so the structure stays readable.
Does it decode HTML entities?
Yes, named entities like &, <, and numeric references like é and 🎉 are converted back to the characters they represent.
What happens to scripts and styles?
Everything inside <script> and <style> tags is removed entirely, so you don’t get JavaScript or CSS in your output.
Will it keep the text structure?
Paragraphs, headings, list items and <br> become line breaks, so the plain text keeps a sensible layout rather than collapsing into one blob.
Does it keep links or just the link text?
Just the visible text, an <a> tag is removed and the words it wrapped remain, but the href URL is dropped. Use the Email & URL Extractor if you specifically need the link addresses.
Can I paste a whole page’s source?
Yes, script and style blocks are stripped first, so even a full page of markup returns only its readable text, and large pages process instantly since everything runs locally.
Does it run any JavaScript in the pasted HTML?
No, script and style blocks are discarded as plain text before anything is parsed, so pasted markup is never executed. You only ever get the readable text content back, never active code.
Why are there blank lines between paragraphs in the output?
Block-level tags like paragraphs and headings become line breaks so the structure stays readable; runs of several blank lines are collapsed, but a single break between blocks is kept so paragraphs remain visually separated.
Is my content uploaded?
No, the stripping runs entirely in your browser.