HTML Stripper: Remove HTML Tags, Get Clean Text
An HTML stripper removes tags and markup, leaving clean plain text. It's the fastest way to repurpose web content for emails, documents, or analysis.
What Gets Removed
Tags, attributes, and inline styles are stripped, leaving headings and paragraphs as plain text. Some tools also let you keep links or strip them entirely.
Use Cases
Convert a webpage to a readable draft, clean copied text before pasting into a CMS, or extract article text for summaries and word counts.
Watch Out for Entity Characters
HTML entities like & and need decoding to appear correctly. A good stripper handles entities, otherwise you'll see raw codes in your output.
Check the Output
After stripping, scan for orphaned text fragments from scripts or navigation. A quick review keeps the cleaned text genuinely usable.
Security and Privacy Note
When you paste HTML into an online stripper, the content is processed by that service. Avoid pasting sensitive or proprietary markup unless you trust the tool and its privacy policy.
For sensitive documents, run the strip locally instead. The same process is simple to repeat with any local script, and your text never leaves your machine.
How to Strip HTML
- Copy the HTML source or paste text with embedded markup into the tool.
- Choose whether to keep links and line breaks or remove everything.
- Run the strip and read the plain-text output for leftover fragments.
If the result still shows raw codes like entity references, run a second pass that decodes them before using the text.
Quick tip: strip before you archive. Saving a clean plain-text copy of a page alongside the HTML makes future searches, quoting, and reuse much faster than re-cleaning the original markup every time. Clean copies make future reuse effortless and keep your archive searchable.