Remove HTML Tags and Extract Clean Text
Strip HTML markup from your content instantly. Remove tags, scripts, styles and comments while converting HTML into clean readable plain text.
HTML Tag Remover
Convert HTML markup into clean text.
Cleaning Options
Control how HTML markup is converted into plain text.
Remove Scripts
Delete script elements and content.
Remove Styles
Delete style elements and CSS.
Remove Comments
Remove HTML comment blocks.
Preserve Line Breaks
Keep readable block separation.
Decode HTML Entities
Convert entities into characters.
Clean Extra Spaces
Normalize repeated whitespace.
Live Preview
Automatically update clean text while editing HTML.
Cleaning Statistics
View details about the HTML cleaning process.
Simple Process
How to Remove HTML Tags
Convert HTML source into readable plain text in three simple steps.
Paste HTML
Enter or paste HTML source code into the input editor.
Choose Options
Select how scripts, styles, comments, entities and line breaks are handled.
Copy Clean Text
Copy the plain-text result or download it as a TXT file.
Example
HTML to Plain Text Example
HTML Input
<h1>Welcome</h1> <p>This is <strong>important</strong> text.</p> <ul> <li>Fast</li> <li>Free</li> </ul>
Clean Text
Welcome This is important text. Fast Free
Useful Features
Clean HTML Your Way
Strip HTML Tags
Remove element markup while keeping readable text content.
Remove Scripts
Delete JavaScript blocks and their embedded source content.
Remove CSS
Strip style blocks that are not part of readable page content.
Preserve Line Breaks
Retain readable spacing between headings, paragraphs and lists.
Decode Entities
Convert encoded HTML entities into normal readable characters.
Clean Whitespace
Reduce unnecessary spaces and excessive blank lines in the result.
HTML Cleaning Utility
Free Online Remove HTML Tags Tool
The Remove HTML Tags tool converts HTML markup into readable plain text. It is useful when you copy content from websites, content management systems, email templates, rich-text editors or HTML documents and need the underlying text without markup.
Instead of manually deleting opening and closing tags, you can paste HTML source into the tool and generate a clean text version instantly.
What Are HTML Tags?
HTML tags are markup instructions used to structure web content. Elements such as headings, paragraphs, links, lists, tables and containers tell browsers how content is organized.
When you only need the readable words, those markup elements can become unnecessary. An HTML tag remover extracts text while discarding the surrounding markup.
Convert HTML to Plain Text
HTML-to-text conversion is useful for preparing content for notes, spreadsheets, plain-text systems, data processing, proofreading and other workflows where HTML formatting is not required.
This tool uses the browser's HTML parser to interpret markup and extract text content. This is more reliable for ordinary HTML input than treating all markup as a simple sequence of characters.
Remove Script and Style Content
Script and style elements often contain JavaScript and CSS rather than readable page content. The cleaning options allow these elements and their contents to be removed before plain text is extracted.
Preserve Meaningful Line Breaks
Removing every tag without considering document structure can cause words and paragraphs to run together. The Preserve Line Breaks option adds readable separation around common block-level elements and break tags.
Decode HTML Entities
HTML can represent special characters through encoded entities. When entity decoding is enabled, supported entity references are converted into their readable character form by the browser parser.
Remove HTML Comments
HTML comments are notes embedded in source code and are not normally displayed as visible page content. The tool can remove comment nodes before extracting the final text.
Clean Text Copied from Web Pages
Developers, writers, editors, marketers, students and data professionals may receive content containing unwanted markup. Removing HTML tags can make that content easier to edit, analyze, reuse or store in plain-text systems.
Browser-Based HTML Processing
In this implementation, HTML processing runs directly in the browser with JavaScript. If your production website later adds server-side storage, analytics or third-party processing, update your privacy information to accurately describe the deployed setup.
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