Strip HTML Tags, Keep the Readable Text
Runs 100% in your browser — your text never leaves this page, and nothing is uploaded or stored.
This strip html tags tool turns pasted HTML into clean plain text — tags, scripts and styles gone, headings and lists kept as tidy lines. Use it to convert html to plain text from a web page or old site, and remove html tags from text online while keeping headings and lists as tidy lines.
How to use the Strip HTML Tags
- Paste your HTML into the box — or press Load sample to strip the example article markup.
- Leave Decode HTML entities ticked (the default) so & and friends become the real characters they represent.
- Read the plain text in the result box: headings and paragraphs on their own lines, list items as bullets.
- Check the note — “HTML removed — plain text remains.” — then copy the text or download it as a file.
About this tool
Sometimes you do not want the web page — you want the words. This tool strips every tag, attribute and script out of pasted HTML and returns readable plain text with the structure intact: headings and paragraphs on their own lines, lists as bullets. It works in careful stages. Script and style blocks are deleted whole, contents included, so no JavaScript or CSS can leak into your text. Break tags, and the closing tags of paragraphs, headings, divs, rows and list items, become real line breaks; each list item gains a bullet. Then every remaining tag is removed, and the lines are tidied — repeated spaces collapse, edges trim, and long runs of blank lines shrink to a single gap. With entity decoding on — the default — the browser’s own parser turns & back into &, © into © and ' into an apostrophe: the full range of named and numeric entities, not just the common few. Turn decoding off only if you are inspecting the raw encoding itself. It is a daily helper for content editors moving text between systems, developers cleaning test data, and anyone rescuing copy from an old website where only the HTML survives. One warning: link addresses and image sources live in attributes, so they are removed with the markup — if you need the URLs themselves, run the URL Extractor over the same paste first. Everything happens in your browser; nothing is uploaded.Worked example
Here is the sample HTML that comes with the tool, stripped with the default settings (entity decoding on): You paste<div class="post"> <h2>My Article Title</h2> <p>This is the <strong>first</strong> paragraph with a <a href="https://example.com">link</a>.</p> <ul><li>Point one</li><li>Point two</li></ul> </div>You get
My Article Title This is the first paragraph with a link. • Point one • Point twoThe heading and the paragraph each took their own line, the list items became bullets, and the link left only its anchor text — “link” — because the address lives in a tag attribute and attributes are removed. The sample has no script, but had it included one, the whole block would have been deleted, contents and all.
Features
- Complete script and style removal — contents deleted too, so no code leaks into your text.
- Structure preserved: headings, paragraphs and divs become lines; list items become bullets.
- Full entity decoding via the browser’s own parser — named and numeric entities, on by default.
- An automatic tidy-up: repeated spaces collapse, line edges trim, and blank runs shrink to one gap.
- Works on any pasted HTML — view-source dumps, email HTML, CMS exports and saved pages.
- Private by design: parsing happens in your browser; your HTML is never uploaded.