Strip HTML Tags

Removes HTML tags and decodes basic entities to plain text.

Strip HTML Tags removes every HTML tag from your input and returns clean plain text. It also decodes the most common HTML entities ( , ", ', <, >, &) and collapses runs of blank lines, so pasted markup turns into readable text in one step.

Common uses

• Convert a snippet of rendered HTML or email markup into plain text for a notes app or document
• Clean up content copied from a web page so only the readable text remains
• Extract the text body from a CMS or WYSIWYG editor output before further processing
• Quickly preview what an HTML fragment says without the tag noise
• Sanitize markup down to text when preparing sample data or test fixtures

FAQ

Is my data sent to a server?

No. The tool runs entirely in your browser using plain JavaScript, and nothing you paste is uploaded or stored anywhere.

Which HTML entities are decoded?

It decodes   (to a space), ", ', <, >, and &. Other named or numeric entities are left as-is.

How are HTML tags removed?

Anything between angle brackets is stripped via a regular expression. This is fast for general cleanup but does not parse a full DOM, so deliberately malformed or unclosed brackets may not be handled the way a browser would render them.

Does it keep the content inside script or style tags?

The tag markers are removed, but the text between <script> or <style> tags is not specially detected, so that inner content will remain in the output. Remove those blocks beforehand if you don't want them.

What happens to blank lines and whitespace?

Three or more consecutive blank lines are collapsed into a single blank line, and leading and trailing whitespace is trimmed from the final result.

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