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HTML Stripper

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Remove all HTML tags from text and get clean plain text — with optional whitespace cleanup, entity decoding, and preserved line breaks.

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Plain Text

16 tags removed · 78 chars
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How to Use

  1. 1 Paste HTML or rich text into the input panel
  2. 2 Choose whether to collapse whitespace and decode entities
  3. 3 Keep line breaks at block boundaries if you want rough layout
  4. 4 Read the clean plain text in the output panel
  5. 5 Copy the stripped text with one click

Features

  • Removes every HTML tag in one pass
  • Discards script and style contents entirely
  • Optional entity decoding turns &amp; back into &
  • Optional whitespace collapse for tidy paragraphs
  • Preserve line breaks at block boundaries
  • Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded

Why it Matters

Copying text out of a web page, an email, or a CMS field often drags along a tangle of HTML tags and entities you do not want. Stripping the markup leaves only the readable content, ready to paste into a plain-text field, a spreadsheet, or a message. Doing it deterministically means the same input always produces the same clean result.

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Use Cases

Clean Pasted Content

Strip tags from copied web or email text

Word & Character Counts

Get accurate counts on the text, not the markup

Data Cleanup

Remove tags from scraped or exported HTML fields

Plain-Text Email

Produce a text version of an HTML message

What this tool does

The HTML Stripper removes every HTML tag from a block of text and returns clean, readable plain text. It discards script and style contents entirely, and can optionally decode entities, collapse whitespace, and preserve line breaks at block boundaries so the output keeps a rough sense of the original layout.

How it works

The stripper first deletes script, style, and comment blocks, then removes every remaining tag, optionally turning block-level boundaries into newlines. It can decode HTML entities back into characters and collapse runs of whitespace into single spaces. The logic is a pure function — the same input always produces the same plain text.

Privacy

Everything runs locally in your browser. No values are uploaded, logged, or stored.

Frequently Asked Questions

What happens to script and style blocks?
Their contents are removed entirely, not just the tags. The text inside a script or style element is code, not readable content, so leaving it in would pollute your output with JavaScript or CSS. The stripper deletes those blocks whole before removing the remaining tags.
Should I decode entities or leave them?
It depends on where the text is going. If you want human-readable output — for a document, a message, or a spreadsheet — decode entities so &amp; becomes & and &#39; becomes an apostrophe. If you are feeding the text back into another HTML context, you may want to leave the entities encoded. The tool lets you choose.
Can I keep the paragraph structure?
Yes. Turn on Preserve line breaks and the stripper converts block-level boundaries — closing paragraphs, list items, headings, and line breaks — into newlines instead of spaces. You lose the tags but keep a rough sense of the original layout, which is handy for readability.
Is this the same as converting HTML to Markdown?
No. Stripping removes all formatting and leaves plain text. Converting to Markdown keeps the structure — headings, links, lists, bold — in a lightweight text syntax. If you want to retain formatting, use the HTML to Markdown tool instead; if you want only the words, the stripper is the right choice.
Is my text sent to a server?
No. Stripping runs entirely in your browser with JavaScript. Nothing you paste is uploaded, logged, or stored, and refreshing the page clears everything.

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