HTML Tag Stripper
Strip all HTML tags from source and get clean plain text, with line breaks preserved or flattened.
How this tool works
Paste your HTML
Full page source or just a fragment both work.
Choose how to handle structure
Preserve line breaks from block-level tags, or flatten everything into one block.
Tags are stripped
Every remaining tag is removed, leaving only the text content.
Entities are decoded
Common HTML entities like & become their actual characters instead of literal codes.
Quick facts
- Category
- Text Tools
- Best for
- Pulling readable plain text out of a scraped page or CMS export
About this tool
Paste HTML source and get back the plain text content with every tag removed - no markup, just the words. Two modes control how structure is handled: "Preserve line breaks" converts block-level tags like <br>, <p>, and <li> into actual line breaks before stripping the rest, so a paragraph or list still reads as separate lines afterward; "Flatten to one block" strips everything down to a single space-separated block with no structure at all, useful when you specifically want a word count or a plain-text blob rather than a readable layout. Common HTML entities like &amp; and &mdash; are decoded back into their actual characters rather than left as literal entity codes in the output. Useful for pulling readable text out of a scraped page, an email template, or a CMS export. Runs entirely client-side.
Why use this tool
Two structure modes
Keep paragraph and list breaks readable, or flatten to a single block - your choice per paste.
Entity decoding included
Output text uses real characters, not literal &amp;/&mdash;-style entity codes.
No markup leaks through
Every tag is removed, including ones a simpler find-and-replace approach might miss.
Works on fragments or full pages
Paste a full HTML document or just a snippet - both strip down to clean text the same way.
Frequently asked questions
"Preserve line breaks" converts structural tags - <br>, <p>, <li>, headings, and table rows - into actual newlines before stripping everything else, so a paragraph or bulleted list still reads as separate lines in the output. "Flatten to one block" skips that step and strips every tag down to a single space-separated line, which is useful when you want a raw word count or a plain-text blob rather than a readable, line-broken layout.
Yes - common named entities (&amp;, &lt;, &gt;, &quot;, &nbsp;, &mdash;, and others) and numeric entities (like &#39; or &#x27;) are decoded into their actual characters, so the output reads as normal text instead of leaving literal entity codes behind.
Content inside <script> and <style> tags is treated like any other tag content - the tags themselves are stripped, but the code or styles inside them are text-content as far as a tag-stripping regex is concerned, so they can appear in the output. For a full page with embedded scripts or styles, review the result before using it, or remove those sections from the input first.
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