Strip HTML Tags

Remove HTML tags from text and extract plain text content. Options to preserve links and line breaks.

Last updated: June 1, 2026

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HTML Input

Plain Text Output

What is Strip HTML Tags?

An HTML tag stripper removes all HTML markup from text, leaving only the visible content. When you copy text from a webpage, it often carries invisible HTML formatting — bold tags, paragraph markers, span elements, div wrappers, and style attributes. This tool extracts the clean text content, removing all < > tags and their attributes while preserving the readable content between them. It optionally handles HTML entities (converting & to &, < to <) and can preserve line breaks from block-level elements.

How It Works

The tool uses a robust HTML parser that identifies all tag patterns (opening tags, closing tags, self-closing tags, comments, and CDATA sections) and removes them while preserving text nodes. It handles malformed HTML gracefully, processes nested tags correctly, and converts HTML entities to their character equivalents. Block-level elements like <p>, <div>, and <br> can optionally be converted to newlines to maintain the document's visual paragraph structure in the plain text output.

Common Use Cases

•Extracting clean text from HTML email content for plain-text versions of newsletters
•Cleaning copied web content for use in plain-text documents or databases
•Preparing text from CMS-generated HTML for use in non-HTML contexts (SMS, plain email)
•Stripping formatting from rich text editor output to get raw content for processing
•Cleaning HTML from RSS feed content for text-only display or analysis
•Removing markup from scraped web data to get clean text for natural language processing