HTML Stripper: Strip HTML Tags from Text Online
Paste any HTML snippet and get just the plain text. Perfect for cleaning up content copied from websites, CMS exports, or email templates.
Quick answer
An HTML stripper removes every markup tag from a block of HTML and leaves only the readable text — unlike an HTML entity decoder, which converts codes like & back to characters but keeps the tags.
- Cost: free, no signup or limits.
- Privacy: runs 100% in your browser; text is never uploaded.
- Works on: desktop and mobile browsers, offline once loaded.
- Category: Content Cleanup.
Common conversions
How to Use
- 1.Paste your HTML into the input.
- 2.The tool instantly strips tags and decodes common HTML entities.
- 3.Copy the clean plain text from the output.
When to strip HTML instead of rendering it
Strip HTML when you need the words, not the layout: cleaning a CMS or WordPress export before re-importing, pulling copy out of an email template, preparing scraped pages for word counts, or sanitising rich-text paste before it lands in a plain-text field. If you need the formatting preserved, convert the HTML to Markdown instead.
What gets removed and what survives
All tags are removed, including <script> and <style> blocks and their contents, comments, and inline attributes. Text nodes survive, common entities (&, <, ) are decoded, and block-level tags become line breaks so paragraphs stay readable rather than collapsing into one run-on line.
FAQ
Does it remove scripts and styles?
Yes — the tag stripping is applied to the entire HTML, so scripts, styles, and other non-visible markup are removed.
Are HTML entities converted?
Common entities like & and < are decoded to their readable characters.
Is my HTML uploaded?
No. The stripping happens entirely in your browser.