HTML Stripper — Remove Tags

Remove all HTML tags from text and get clean plain text. Decodes entities and tidies whitespace, entirely in your browser.

Runs in your browser — nothing uploaded
Plain text
Paste HTML above to see the stripped text here.

Tags are removed with your browser's own HTML parser and HTML entities are decoded — nothing is uploaded. Scripts and styles are discarded, not executed.

Paste HTML and get back clean, readable plain text. This stripper removes every tag, decodes HTML entities, and can preserve or flatten line breaks — handy for pulling copy out of emails, CMS exports, or scraped pages. It runs entirely in your browser.

Private by design — your data never leaves your device

How to use it

No account, no upload — it all happens on your device.

1
Paste your HTML into the input box.
2
Choose whether to keep line breaks from block tags and <br>.
3
Read the clean plain text in the output panel.
4
Click Copy to grab the stripped text.

When to strip HTML

Common cases where you want the words, not the markup.

  • Cleaning pasted content. Copy from a web page or email and you often drag along a mess of tags and inline styles. Stripping leaves just the text.
  • Preparing text for analysis. Word counts, readability checks, and search indexing all work better on plain text than on markup.
  • Migrating content. Moving copy between a CMS, a spreadsheet, or a plain-text field is far cleaner without stray HTML.

How the stripping works

The tool parses your input with the browser's native HTML parser, discards <script> and <style> blocks, then reads the remaining text content. Because the parsed document is never attached to the page, no images load and no scripts run — it is safe by construction.

Frequently asked

Is my HTML sent anywhere?
No. The tool uses your browser's own HTML parser to read the markup and pull out the text. Nothing is uploaded, and scripts or styles in the input are removed rather than run.
Are HTML entities decoded?
Yes. Entities like &amp;, &lt;, and &nbsp; are turned back into the real characters (&, <, and a space), so you get clean, readable text instead of escape codes.
Can I keep the paragraph breaks?
Turn on 'Keep line breaks' and the tool converts <br> and block tags such as <p>, <div>, and <li> into new lines. Leave it off to collapse everything into a single flowing paragraph.

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