Paste HTML source, get clean plain text. Block tags become line breaks, entities decode, allow-list keeps chosen tags, script content gets removed — all in your browser.
- Runs locally
- Category Text
- Best for Removing repetitive cleanup work from everyday writing and operations.
What this tool does
Turn HTML source into clean, readable plain text. Saved page source, email templates, and rich-text editor exports are usually more markup than words, and copying them raw drags along &, and other gibberish. This tool drops every tag, keeps the text, and turns block elements — p, div, li, h1 through h6, br, tr — into line breaks so your paragraph structure survives instead of collapsing into one run-on blob. HTML entities decode back to real characters: & becomes &, ' becomes an apostrophe, becomes a space, numeric entities too. Code inside script and style elements is removed wholesale, tag and contents, so JavaScript never leaks into your output. Need to keep b, i, or a? Add them to the allow-list and the rest still go. Extra blank lines collapse on a toggle. Paste and the result is live, with a character count and one-click copy. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Tool details
- Input
- Text + Numbers + Structured content
- The page exposes text boxes, numeric controls, file pickers, or structured inputs depending on the tool.
- Output
- Live result + Copy
- The result area focuses on usable output, with copy, download, or preview actions when supported.
- Privacy
- Browser-side processing
- The main tool logic does not call an external API, so inputs normally stay in the current tab.
- Save / share
- Local preference storage
- Preferences, history, or drafts are saved in this browser without an account.
- Performance budget
- Initial JS <= 9 KB
- No WASM budget is declared, keeping the tool quick to open on mobile.
- Best fit
- Text · Developer
- Category and role tags drive related tools, internal links, and quick fit checks.
How to use
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1. Input
Paste or drop your content into the tool panel.
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2. Process
Click the button. All processing is local in your browser.
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3. Copy / Download
Copy the result or download to disk in one click.
How Strip HTML Tags fits into your work
Use it to clean, compare, reshape, or extract plain text before it goes into a document, CMS, spreadsheet, or prompt.
Text jobs
- Removing repetitive cleanup work from everyday writing and operations.
- Making text easier to compare, paste, publish, or feed into another tool.
- Working with content locally when the text is private or unfinished.
Text checks
- Scan for unintended whitespace, duplicate lines, and lost punctuation.
- For long text, test the first few lines before applying the whole change.
- Copy the final output only after checking the preview.
Good next steps
These links move the current task into a more complete workflow.
- 1 Remove Line Breaks Strip or replace line breaks, join wrapped lines into running text — keep-paragraphs mode, CRLF/CR/LF normalize, live preview — browser-only Open
- 2 HTML to Markdown HTML to Markdown — paste rich content, get clean .md with links, code, tables, lists preserved. Open
- 3 HTML Entities Encoder Encode/decode HTML entities — & < > " ' and all numeric refs — browser-only Open
Real-world use cases
Clean scraped page bodies into a text corpus
When you scrape or script against pages, what comes back is full of div, span, inline styles, plus analytics code inside script. Paste it here with block-to-line-break on and script content removed, and you get clean body text with paragraphs intact, ready to feed a search index or a model — no hand-rolled regex cleanup needed.
Downgrade rich-editor exports to plain text
Text copied from Notion, Google Docs, or a web Word editor often carries a layer of HTML, and pasting it into a plain box leaves gibberish. Strip the tags here, decode and & back, then paste into a code comment, chat box, or terminal where the layout will not blow up.
Pull readable copy out of an email template
Marketing email HTML nests deep, and finding the words that actually ship means digging through the markup. Paste the whole template, keep paragraph breaks, and headings and body lines sort themselves out so you can see at a glance what the email says — handy for review or rewriting copy.
Strip formatting before a word count
Counting words on tagged content folds <p> and class names into the total. Convert to plain text here first, with entities collapsed to single characters, then run it through word-counter so the count is accurate — by character for Chinese, by word for English — without tag noise.
Common pitfalls
Turning off "Block tags to line breaks" on a full HTML page, so every paragraph, heading, and list item crushes into one long line that reads worse than the source. Keep it on for page bodies; only turn it off when you want a single line to feed a program.
Forgetting to enable "Decode entities", leaving &, ', and in the plain text. These are not part of the words — they are HTML escapes — and pasting them elsewhere shows them as literal characters.
Assuming tag stripping also drops the code inside script, then watching a wall of JavaScript leak into the text from another tool. Confirm the tool removes script and style contents, not just the tag pair. This one cuts the whole block by default.
Privacy
Stripping tags, decoding entities, and collapsing whitespace are all plain JavaScript running in your browser tab, built on strings and regex, with no server involved. The HTML you paste and the plain text you get never leave the page and are not logged. Note this tool does not use a share link: HTML can be long and often holds private content, so it is kept out of the URL, which means a refresh clears it. Use the copy button to keep a result.
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