What This Tool Does
Paste any HTML — a copied webpage, a CMS export, an email template, or a raw API response — and the stripper removes every tag and returns the raw readable text. It handles self-closing tags, multi-attribute elements, inline styles, script blocks, and deeply nested markup without leaving angle-bracket residue behind.
How to Use It
- Paste your HTML into the left panel.
- Choose Preserve to keep paragraph and line breaks, or Collapse to flatten everything into a single line of text.
- Enable Decode HTML entities to convert
&,<, , and other codes into their real characters. - Copy the output or download it as a plain text file.
Common Use Cases
- Cleaning CMS or blog exports before migrating content to a new platform (use HTML Formatter beforehand if the markup is minified)
- Extracting readable copy from email HTML templates for review or editing
- Feeding scraped web content into a word counter or readability checker
- Removing markup before running a spell check or grammar pass
- Converting API responses that return HTML-tagged strings into plain strings
Frequently Asked Questions
Does it remove inline styles and script tags too?
Yes. The stripper removes everything between angle brackets, including <style>, <script>, and any tag carrying inline CSS attributes. The content inside those tags — not just the tags themselves — is also removed because the regex targets the full tag structure.
What are HTML entities and why would I decode them?
HTML entities are escape codes like & (renders as &), < (renders as <), and (a non-breaking space). They exist because raw angle brackets would be interpreted as HTML tags. When you extract text from markup, you usually want the real characters — not the codes — so the decode option converts them automatically.
Will the paragraph structure survive stripping?
Yes, when you choose Preserve. The tool detects closing <p>, <div>, <br>, and heading tags and inserts newlines before removing the tags, so the logical paragraph flow carries through to the plain text output.
Is my HTML sent to a server?
No. All processing runs in your browser with JavaScript. Nothing is uploaded, logged, or stored anywhere.
Can it handle malformed or partial HTML?
It handles most real-world cases — unclosed tags, missing quotes around attributes, and mixed content — because it strips by pattern rather than parsing a strict DOM tree. Extremely malformed input may leave edge-case fragments, but standard copy-pasted HTML will always produce clean output.