HTML Strip / Remove Tags

Strip HTML to plain text

This tool converts HTML markup into readable plain text. It parses the input as HTML, walks the document body, drops non-content elements such as script and style, decodes character references, and inserts newlines for block structure and line breaks.

Unlike HTML Encode / Escape and HTML Decode / Unescape, which only escape or unescape character references, this page removes tags and returns plain text suitable for reading or copying into a text field.

How to strip HTML tags

1. Paste an HTML document or fragment.
2. Click Strip.
3. Copy the plain-text result from the output textarea.

The conversion runs entirely in your browser with DOMParser. Markup is not assigned into the live page.

What the converter does

• Ignores script, style, noscript, template, and iframe elements and their content.
• Turns <br> and <hr> into newlines, and inserts newlines around common block elements such as paragraphs, headings, lists, and tables.
• Preserves whitespace inside <pre> and <textarea>; collapses other horizontal whitespace.
• Keeps link text from <a> elements without appending URLs, and omits image alt text in this version.
• Collapses long runs of blank lines and trims leading and trailing whitespace.

The output is plain text in a textarea. Do not paste it back into an HTML document expecting markup to remain inactive unless you escape it first with HTML Encode / Escape.

HTML strip FAQ

Are script and style contents removed?

Yes. Those elements and their contents are omitted from the plain-text result.

Is this an HTML sanitizer?

No. The tool produces readable plain text for people. It does not enforce a content security policy, allowlist safe tags for HTML re-use, or make markup safe to render.

Are HTML entities decoded?

Yes. Named and numeric character references are decoded by the HTML parser before text is collected, so values such as & and < become & and < in the output text.