HTML Stripper
Remove all HTML tags from text
HTML Stripper
Remove all HTML tags from text
About This Tool
This tool removes all HTML tags from your text, leaving only the plain text content. It also decodes HTML entities like &, <, > into their actual characters. Perfect for extracting clean text from HTML content.
Privacy & Security
All HTML stripping and text extraction happens entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Your HTML content is never uploaded to our servers, transmitted over the network, stored in databases, or logged anywhere. This is crucial when working with sensitive emails, confidential documents, or private web content. When you close the page, all your content is permanently erased from browser memory. Completely private and secure.
About HTML Stripper
Strip HTML tags and convert HTML to plain text with our free HTML stripper tool. Whether you're a content writer extracting text from web pages, a data analyst cleaning scraped HTML data, a developer testing text output, or an email marketer converting HTML to plain text format, our tool instantly removes all HTML markup including tags, attributes, scripts, and styles. Perfect for extracting readable content from HTML emails, web scraping data cleanup, and converting rich HTML content to plain text for databases or APIs with options to preserve formatting.
Key Features
Complete Tag Removal
Strip all HTML tags including div, span, p, a, img, and any custom elements
Script & Style Removal
Remove <script> and <style> blocks with their entire content automatically
Preserve Line Breaks
Option to convert <br> and block elements to line breaks in plain text
Entity Decoding
Convert HTML entities (&, , ") to their actual characters
Whitespace Normalization
Clean up extra spaces, tabs, and line breaks for readable output
Link Extraction
Optionally preserve URLs from anchor tags as plain text after link text
Batch Processing
Strip HTML from multiple texts or HTML fragments at once
Character Count
See word and character counts for both HTML input and plain text output
Copy & Download
Copy plain text to clipboard or download as .txt file instantly
Encoding Support
Handle UTF-8 and international characters correctly during conversion
How to Use the HTML Stripper
Paste HTML Content
Copy and paste your HTML code, web page content, or HTML email into the input area
Choose Options
Select whether to preserve line breaks, decode entities, or include URLs from links
Strip HTML Tags
Click 'Strip HTML' to instantly remove all tags and convert to clean plain text
Copy or Download
Copy the plain text to clipboard or download as a text file for your use
Frequently Asked Questions
What is HTML stripping and why would I need it?
HTML stripping removes all HTML tags, attributes, and markup from text, leaving only the plain text content. You need it when you want to extract readable text from web pages, convert HTML emails to plain text format, clean up web scraping results, or prepare text for systems that don't support HTML. It's essential for data processing, content analysis, and creating plain text versions of HTML content.
Does it remove JavaScript and CSS code too?
Yes! The HTML stripper automatically removes entire <script> and <style> blocks including their content. This ensures that JavaScript code, CSS rules, and inline styles don't appear in your plain text output. Only visible text content that would be shown to users in a browser is extracted.
What are HTML entities and how are they handled?
HTML entities are special codes like & (for &), (for non-breaking space), < (for <), " (for "), and © (for Š). Our tool decodes these entities back to their actual characters in the plain text output, so your text is readable and natural. You can disable this if you want to keep entity codes.
Can I preserve some formatting like line breaks?
Yes! You can choose to preserve line breaks by converting <br> tags and block-level elements (like <p>, <div>, <h1>) into line breaks in the plain text output. This maintains paragraph structure and readability. Without this option, all HTML is converted to continuous text.
Will it extract URLs from links?
Yes! You can enable the option to extract URLs from <a> tags and include them in the plain text output, typically as 'Link Text (URL)' format. This is useful when you want to preserve hyperlink destinations in plain text, such as when converting HTML emails or documentation.
Is this HTML stripper free?
Yes! Our HTML stripper is completely free to use with unlimited conversions and no registration required.
Will my HTML content be stored or analyzed?
No. All HTML stripping happens entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Your HTML content is never uploaded to our servers, stored in databases, or transmitted anywhere. This is important when working with sensitive content, private emails, or confidential documents. Completely private and secure.
Does it work with malformed or broken HTML?
Yes! The tool handles malformed HTML gracefully, doing its best to extract text even from broken or incomplete HTML. While valid HTML produces the cleanest results, the stripper works with real-world HTML that may have unclosed tags or invalid structure.
Common Use Cases
- Content Extraction: Extract readable text from web pages for analysis, indexing, or archiving
- Email Plain Text Version: Create plain text versions of HTML emails for better deliverability and accessibility
- Web Scraping Cleanup: Clean scraped HTML data by removing markup and extracting only text content
- Database Import: Convert HTML content to plain text before storing in databases or spreadsheets
- SEO Meta Description: Extract clean text from HTML content for use in meta descriptions and excerpts
- Character Count Verification: Check actual text length by stripping HTML to count only visible characters
- Copy-Paste Cleanup: Remove unwanted HTML formatting when copying content between applications
- API Text Processing: Prepare clean text input for NLP, sentiment analysis, or text processing APIs
Why Use Our HTML Stripper?
Manually removing HTML tags from content is tedious and error-prone, especially with complex nested markup, JavaScript blocks, and HTML entities. Copy-pasting from browsers often brings unwanted formatting and invisible characters. Our free HTML stripper intelligently removes all markup while preserving the actual text content, decoding entities, and optionally maintaining formatting structure with line breaks. Whether you're processing scraped web data, creating plain text email versions, extracting content for analysis, or cleaning up pasted HTML, you'll get clean, readable plain text instantly. No more regex headaches or manual tag deletion - just paste HTML and get clean text immediately.