How to use
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Paste your markup
Drop your HTML into the left pane, the box with the placeholder Paste HTML to strip. The conversion happens live, so plain text shows up the instant your paste lands.
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Check the output pane
The right side shows your text with every tag gone and entities decoded. Hit Try sample first if you want to see how a heading, emphasis, and a link get flattened.
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Copy the clean text
Click the copy button above the output and paste the result wherever it's headed. Press Clear to reset both panes when you need to remove html from text from another source.
Why Strip HTML Tags
- Removes every HTML tag using the browser's native parser.
- Decodes HTML entities (&, , etc.) to plain characters.
- Output is clean plain text.
Common questions
How does the Strip HTML Tags tool remove markup?
It assigns your input to a detached element's innerHTML and reads back the textContent. That means the browser's real HTML parser does the work, the same engine that renders web pages. Tags vanish, text nodes survive, and the result is trimmed of leading and trailing whitespace.
Does stripping HTML also decode entities like & and ?
Yes. Because the browser parses the markup, & comes out as a plain ampersand, becomes a space, and numeric entities like © turn into their actual characters. You don't need a separate decoding pass afterward.
Why does my text run together after the tags are removed?
Tag removal doesn't insert line breaks, so two adjacent paragraphs like <p>one</p><p>two</p> come out as onetwo. If you need paragraph breaks preserved, add a newline before each closing block tag in the source first, then strip. It's a limitation of reading raw text content rather than rendering layout.
Can I strip html tags from an entire exported blog post at once?
Yes, paste the whole export in one go. The parsing is done locally in your browser, so a long article or a full CMS content field processes in a blink and nothing is sent to a server.
What happens to script and style blocks in the pasted markup?
Nothing executes, but the code inside those blocks is still text as far as the parser is concerned, so it can show up in your output. If your export contains inline styles or tracking scripts, delete those blocks before pasting or clean the leftovers after.
Will the tag remover cope with broken or unclosed HTML?
Yes. Browsers are famously forgiving parsers, and this tool inherits that. An unclosed <div> or a stray </span> won't throw an error; the parser repairs the tree the way a browser would and you still get the text out.
Is the html to plain text conversion private?
Completely. The transformation runs in your own browser tab with no upload, no logging, and no account. You can paste internal documentation or client content without it leaving your machine.