Remove all HTML tags from text and extract clean plain text content.
HTML Input
Plain Text Output
How to Use
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Paste HTMLPaste HTML code or a webpage snippet into the Input field.
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Choose optionsDecide whether to decode entities, preserve newlines, and clean extra spaces.
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Click Strip HTMLAll HTML tags are removed, leaving only the text content.
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Copy resultCopy the clean plain text to your clipboard.
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Use anywherePaste the clean text into any application that doesn't support HTML.
📌 All processing happens in your browser. Your HTML is never uploaded to any server.
About Strip HTML Tags
Editing and transforming text manually is tedious and error-prone. Strip HTML Tags automates the process so you can remove all html tags from text and extract clean plain text content in one click. It works with any length of text, from a single sentence to thousands of lines, and runs entirely in your browser for complete privacy.
Frequently Asked Questions
The tool uses the browser's built-in DOMParser to safely parse the HTML and extract the textContent, which is the text without any tags. This is more reliable than regex-based stripping.
HTML entities are special characters encoded as text (e.g. & for &, < for <, for a non-breaking space). With "Decode HTML Entities" enabled, these are converted to their actual characters.
Yes. The browser's DOMParser processes the HTML in a safe context — scripts are not executed. The tool only extracts text content, so there's no risk of XSS from pasted HTML.
Common uses: extracting text from HTML emails, converting HTML articles to plain text for editing, cleaning up copy-pasted web content, and preparing text for systems that don't support HTML.