Strip HTML

What is Strip HTML?

Paste HTML and get just the plain text content instantly, with every tag removed. It uses your browser's own HTML parser, so nested tags and entities are handled correctly, not a regex that can be fooled by malformed markup. Useful for pulling readable text out of a scraped page, an email's HTML source, or a CMS export before pasting it somewhere plain text is expected. Everything runs client-side in your browser, live as you type.

How to Use Strip HTML

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   Paste the HTML: Enter markup from a scraped page, email, or CMS export.

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   Read the Plain Text Instantly: The text content, with entities decoded, appears automatically as you type.

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   Copy the Result: Use the copy button to copy the plain text.

How It Works

Instead of using a regular expression to strip tags (which can be fooled by malformed or nested markup), this tool hands your pasted HTML to the browser's own built-in HTML parser and reads back the resulting text content, the same parsing engine that renders any webpage. That means nested tags, unclosed tags, and HTML entities are all handled the way a real browser would handle them, not approximated.

Example

Input: "<p>Hello <strong>world</strong> &amp; welcome!</p>"

Output: "Hello world & welcome!" Tags are removed and the &amp; entity is decoded to a plain &.

Common Use Cases

Pulling readable text out of a scraped web page or an email's HTML source, cleaning pasted rich text (from a Word doc or Google Doc) before storing it as plain text, or extracting a CMS export's body content without its markup.