// remove every HTML tag and extract the raw text content
Remove every HTML tag and extract raw plain text from any HTML. Strip tags instantly with smart whitespace handling, link extraction, and multiple output modes — free, no signup.
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Paste HTML on the left and click StripPaste any HTML — a snippet, a full page, or copied source code — into the left editor. The tag count updates instantly as you type.
Choose an output mode (Plain, Compact, Line Break), toggle entity decoding, script/style removal, link extraction, and structure preservation.
Click "▶ Strip HTML" or type and it strips live. Copy the result or download as a .txt file. The reduction badge shows how much markup was removed.
The HTML Stripper removes all HTML tags from input and returns only the raw text content. It handles entity decoding (& → &), smart whitespace normalization, and optional link extraction — all in the browser with no data sent to any server. Ideal for content extraction, text analysis, and data cleaning workflows.
HTML stripping is the process of removing all markup tags from an HTML document, leaving only the visible text content. The result is the text a user would see in a browser — headings, paragraphs, link text, button labels — without any of the surrounding <div>, <p>, <a> or other tags.
Plain Text preserves the visual structure of the document — headings become separate lines, paragraphs are separated by blank lines, and list items start new lines. Compact collapses all whitespace into single spaces, producing a dense single-paragraph result. Line Break puts each block-level element (paragraph, heading, list item) on its own line with no blank lines between them.
HTML entities like &, <, ©, and are converted to their real characters (&, <, ©, space). When disabled, the entity codes are left as-is in the output — useful if you want to process the text further without assuming a specific character encoding.
Without explicitly removing <script> and <style> blocks first, their raw content (JavaScript code and CSS rules) would appear as text in the output after the tags are stripped. The "Remove scripts & styles" option removes these entire blocks — including their content — before tag stripping begins.
No. All processing happens entirely in your browser using the DOM API and JavaScript. Your HTML never leaves your machine — there is no upload, no server processing, and no storage. The tool works offline once the page is loaded.
Yes. The stripper processes text in memory using JavaScript string operations and the browser's DOM parser. Files up to several megabytes are handled quickly. For very large files (tens of MB), processing may take a second or two depending on your device — there is no enforced size limit.
HTML stripping is one of the most common preprocessing steps in web data workflows. Whether you're feeding article content into a language model, analyzing readability scores, counting words for billing, or cleaning up copy-pasted content from a CMS, the first step is almost always the same: get the HTML out of the way and work with the text.
Server-side HTML stripping with tools like BeautifulSoup, htmlparser2, or PHP's strip_tags() requires code setup. This tool handles it instantly in the browser — paste HTML, get text. It uses the browser's own DOM parser, which is the same engine used to render the page, ensuring the extracted text accurately reflects what users actually see.
Raw tag removal produces messy output because HTML uses tags rather than whitespace to indicate structure. Removing <p> tags without adding newlines produces run-together paragraphs. Removing <li> tags without handling list structure produces merged list items. This stripper understands block-level elements and inserts appropriate whitespace to preserve readability.