Free Online HTML Stripper — Clean Text in Seconds

Strip HTML Tags & Extract Clean Text With The
#1 Free HTML Stripper

Paste any HTML and get clean, readable plain text instantly. Strips all tags, decodes entities, and preserves your content structure. No signup, no downloads — works right in your browser.

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How the HTML Stripper Works — Paste HTML, Get Plain Text

HTML tags are everywhere — in emails, web pages, CMS exports, RSS feeds, API responses. When you need just the text, manually deleting tags is tedious and error-prone. Miss one closing tag and your whole document looks broken.

Our HTML stripper does it all in one step:

drop raw HTML into the left panel. Source code from websites, email templates, CMS exports, API responses, database fields — anything with HTML tags works.

the right panel shows your stripped plain text in real time. All HTML tags are removed. Block-level elements (paragraphs, divs, headings, list items) become proper line breaks so your text stays readable.

characters like & < >   and " are converted back to their readable forms. You get actual text, not entity codes.

one click copies the clean text to your clipboard. Paste it into your document, spreadsheet, CMS, or code editor.

How the HTML Stripper Works — Paste HTML, Get Plain Text

No configuration. No options to fiddle with. Paste HTML in, get plain text out. That's the entire workflow.

Why You Need to Strip HTML More Often Than You Think

HTML tags don't just live on web pages. They show up in places you don't expect — and they cause problems when you try to use the text without cleaning it first.

Export a blog post from WordPress, Ghost, or Webflow and you get paragraphs wrapped in <p> tags, bold text in <strong> tags, links with full href attributes. If you need the raw text for a different platform, you need to strip all of that first.

Every marketing email is built with HTML tables, inline styles, and nested divs. When you need the text content for a plain-text version or compliance review, manually extracting it from that markup is painful. The HTML stripper handles it in seconds.

If you're pulling content from websites — for research, data analysis, or content migration — the raw HTML comes with tags, attributes, scripts, and style blocks. You need the text, not the code. Stripping HTML is the first step in any scraping pipeline.

Rich text editors in apps store content as HTML. When you export that data or display it in a non-HTML context (CSV, plain text API, mobile notification), the tags show up as visible junk. Clean it before it reaches your users.

If your app accepts text input from users — comments, reviews, form fields — they might paste HTML or try to inject tags. Stripping HTML is a basic security step to prevent XSS attacks and keep your data clean.

What This HTML Stripper Handles That Simple Regex Doesn't

The quick-and-dirty approach to stripping HTML is a regex like <[^>]*>. It works for simple cases. But real-world HTML breaks it in a dozen ways. Here's what our tool handles properly:

When you strip a <p> tag, you don't want the text from two paragraphs running together on one line. Our stripper converts block elements — divs, paragraphs, headings, list items, table rows, br tags — into proper newlines. Your text structure stays intact.

A naive tag stripper would leave JavaScript code and CSS rules as visible text in your output. Our tool removes <script>, <style>, and <head> blocks completely — content and all — before stripping the remaining tags.

Raw HTML is full of encoded characters: & for ampersands, < for less-than signs,   for non-breaking spaces, ’ for curly apostrophes. Our stripper decodes all named and numeric HTML entities back to their readable characters.

Comment blocks like  get stripped cleanly. They don't leak into your output text.

After stripping tags, you often end up with double spaces, trailing whitespace, and runs of empty lines. The tool collapses these into clean, readable formatting — single spaces between words, single blank lines between paragraphs.

What This HTML Stripper Handles That Simple Regex Doesn't

Who Uses the HTML Stripper — And What They're Cleaning

This tool gets daily use from people across very different roles. Here's who finds it most useful:

Moving blog posts from WordPress to Ghost? From Substack to your own site? The export gives you HTML. The new platform wants Markdown or plain text. Writers use the HTML stripper as the first step — strip the tags, then reformat for the target platform.

APIs return HTML in text fields more often than they should. Developers paste those responses into the stripper to see the actual content, debug display issues, or prepare clean data for processing. It's faster than writing a one-off script.

Email compliance reviews, plain-text fallbacks, and content audits all require the text without the markup. Marketers paste their email HTML and get the readable version in seconds.

When you view-source on a competitor's page, you get HTML. To analyze the actual copy — word count, keyword density, content structure — you need plain text first. The HTML stripper extracts it cleanly.

Copying text from a website often brings hidden HTML formatting. Pasting it into a document can mess up fonts, spacing, and styles. Strip the HTML first, then paste clean text into your paper or notes.

Clean HTML. Clean Text.

Stop Manually Deleting Tags — Strip HTML in One Paste

Find-and-replace can handle simple tags. But it can't decode entities, remove script blocks, convert block elements to line breaks, and normalize whitespace — all at once, without breaking anything.

The HTML stripper does all of it. Paste your HTML, get clean text, copy it out. No regex to write. No script to run. No options to configure.

It's free. No signup, no character limits, no email gate. Your HTML goes in messy, your text comes out clean. That's the whole tool.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Exactly Gets Stripped?

All HTML tags are removed — opening tags, closing tags, self-closing tags, and tags with attributes. Script and style blocks are removed entirely (including their content). HTML comments are stripped. HTML entities like &, <,  , and numeric codes are decoded back to readable characters. The text content between tags is preserved.

Does It Preserve Line Breaks and Paragraphs?

Yes. Block-level HTML elements — <p>, <div>, <br>, <h1>-<h6>, <li>, <tr>, and others — are converted to line breaks before the tags are removed. This keeps your text structured and readable instead of running everything together into one long paragraph.

Does It Handle HTML Entities?

Yes. The tool decodes all common named entities (&, <, >, ",  , —, ’, etc.) plus decimal and hexadecimal numeric entities (like ’ or ’). You get actual characters in your output, not entity codes.

Will It Remove JavaScript and CSS Too?

Yes. The tool strips <script> and <style> blocks completely — both the tags and everything inside them. You won't see JavaScript code or CSS rules in your plain text output. The <head> section is also removed entirely.

Is My HTML Private? Does It Get Stored?

Your HTML is sent to our server for processing but is not stored permanently. We don't save your content, share it with third parties, or use it for any other purpose. Once the cleaned text is returned, your input is discarded.

Can I Use This for Email HTML Templates?

Yes — email templates are one of the most common use cases. Marketing emails are built with complex HTML tables, inline styles, and nested divs. The stripper extracts the readable text content from all of that markup. It's useful for creating plain-text email versions, compliance reviews, and content audits.

How Is This Better Than a Regex?

A simple regex like <[^>]*> works for basic cases but fails on real-world HTML. It won't decode entities, won't remove script/style content, won't convert block elements to line breaks, and won't handle malformed tags. Our tool handles all of these edge cases properly.

Is There a Character or Size Limit?

Free usage handles most typical documents and code snippets without issues. If you're processing very large HTML files regularly, paid plans remove all limits. For everyday use — email templates, blog exports, page source code — the free tier is plenty.

Can I Strip HTML from a URL?

Currently the tool works with pasted HTML content. To strip HTML from a web page, view the page source in your browser (Ctrl+U or Cmd+U), copy the HTML, and paste it into the tool. The full page content will be extracted as clean plain text.

Does It Work with Malformed or Broken HTML?

Yes. The tool handles messy, malformed HTML that you'd find in the real world — unclosed tags, improperly nested elements, mixed-case tag names, and attributes with or without quotes. It strips what it can and preserves the text content regardless of how clean the markup is.