HTML Tag Stripper
Remove all HTML tags from text, leaving clean plain text.
What is HTML Tag Stripper?
HTML Tag Stripper (also called HTML Strip Tags) is a tool that removes all HTML markup from a block of text, leaving only the plain text content behind. When you paste HTML code or a web page's source into the tool, it strips out everything between angle brackets — tags like `<p>`, `<div>`, `<a href="...">`, `<span>`, `<b>`, and all others — and returns just the readable text.
This is an essential text processing operation for anyone who works with web content. Copying text from a website often brings along invisible HTML markup when pasted into certain applications. Content editors who work in HTML-based CMS platforms frequently need to strip formatting when migrating text between systems. Data scientists and researchers who scrape web content need to clean HTML from their datasets before analysis.
The tool typically handles nested tags, self-closing tags, inline styles, script and style blocks, and HTML entities like & and . A good HTML stripper converts entities back to their plain text equivalents (& for &, space for ) so the output is truly clean and human-readable.
How to Use HTML Tag Stripper
- 1Step 1: Copy the HTML source code or HTML-rich text you want to clean. This could be copied from a browser's page source, a CMS editor, a web scraping output, or an HTML email.
- 2Step 2: Paste the HTML content into the HTML Strip Tags input area. You will see all the markup tags and attributes in the input field.
- 3Step 3: Click Strip Tags (or Strip HTML). The tool processes the input and removes every HTML element while preserving the text content between tags.
- 4Step 4: Review the output to ensure the plain text is clean and complete. Check that HTML entities like & have been converted to their actual characters.
- 5Step 5: Copy the clean plain text output and paste it into your document, database field, text analyzer, or any application that expects plain text rather than HTML.
Benefits of Using HTML Tag Stripper
- ✓Complete Tag Removal: Strips all HTML elements — block, inline, self-closing, and void elements — leaving absolutely no markup in the output text.
- ✓HTML Entity Conversion: Decodes HTML entities (&, <, >, , etc.) into their plain text equivalents, producing truly readable output without encoded artifacts.
- ✓Content Migration: Cleans HTML-formatted content from old CMS exports before importing into new platforms that require plain text or use a different markup system.
- ✓Data Preparation: Web scrapers and data scientists use it to clean HTML from scraped content before running text analysis, NLP, or feeding data into machine learning models.
- ✓Email Content Cleaning: Strips HTML from HTML-formatted emails to extract the plain text for archiving, display in plain-text contexts, or content analysis.
- ✓Safe Text Processing: Removes any potentially dangerous script tags or event handlers from untrusted HTML before displaying or storing content.
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About HTML Tag Stripper
HTML Tag Stripper removes all HTML markup from a block of text, leaving only the plain text content. It's useful for extracting readable content from HTML source code or web-scraped data. The tool handles nested tags, attributes, and self-closing elements.
- Strips all HTML tags
- Preserves text content
- Handles nested and self-closing tags
- Works with large HTML inputs