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Strip HTML Tags Online

Remove all HTML tags from your text instantly. Extract clean plain text from HTML source code.

How It Works

  1. 1Paste your HTML source code into the input box.
  2. 2The tool immediately strips all HTML tags — everything inside < > brackets — from the text, leaving only the readable content.
  3. 3Copy the plain text result to use in any editor, CMS, or document.

About This Tool

Strip HTML Tags is an essential utility for content teams, developers, and data engineers who regularly work with HTML-formatted content. Common use cases include extracting readable text from HTML email templates for preview text generation, cleaning scraped web content for natural language processing, converting HTML-formatted CMS content to plain text for export, and preparing text for word count, readability analysis, or further processing.

The tag removal uses a regular expression that matches all angle-bracket sequences including self-closing tags, multi-attribute elements, and script/style blocks. The approach handles real-world HTML including malformed or partial markup. The tag count badge shows you how many elements were stripped from your input, giving you a quick sense of how heavily marked-up the source was.

All processing runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript computed properties, which means the output updates in real time as you type or paste HTML. No data is ever uploaded to a server, making this safe to use with confidential or proprietary content. For a more thorough extraction — including decoding HTML entities like &amp; and &nbsp; — combine this tool with the HTML Decode tool available on UseToolify.

You may also find our HTML Encode / Decode, Markdown to HTML, and Word Counter helpful.

How to Use

  1. 1. Paste the HTML you want to clean.
  2. 2. All tags are removed, leaving only the readable text.
  3. 3. Copy the plain-text result.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does Strip HTML Tags do?

It removes all HTML markup — tags like <p>, <div>, <a>, <img> — leaving only the plain text content between the tags.

Will HTML entities like &amp; also be removed?

No. The tool removes only HTML tags (angle bracket elements). HTML entities like &amp; &lt; remain in the output as text. Use our HTML Decode tool to convert them to their character equivalents.

Why would I need to strip HTML tags?

Common use cases include extracting readable text from HTML emails, cleaning scraped web content, preparing text for word count, or converting HTML-formatted content to plain text for other systems.

Does it handle malformed HTML?

The tool uses a regex pattern to match anything between < and > characters, so it handles most real-world HTML including malformed tags.

Is the tool free?

Yes — completely free with no limits, no watermarks, and no signup required.

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