Remove HTML Tags
Paste HTML and get clean plain text back. Tags are stripped, entities such as & and are decoded, and paragraph breaks are preserved so the result still reads like prose rather than one long run-on line.
Remove HTML Tags tool
How to use it
- Paste the HTML you want cleaned.
- Choose whether to keep paragraph breaks and whether to list link addresses.
- Copy or download the plain text.
Worked example
Hello world
Turning markup back into readable text
Copying from a web page or a CMS often drags along markup: tags, inline styles, comments and encoded entities such as and &. Stripping tags with a blunt find-and-replace usually leaves the entities behind and glues paragraphs together, so the result reads as one solid block.
This tool removes script and style blocks first so their contents do not end up in the text, converts closing paragraph, heading and list tags into real line breaks, then decodes the entities properly using the browser's own parser. The optional link list is useful when the addresses matter but you do not want the anchor markup inline.
Common uses
- Cleaning content pasted from a website or CMS
- Pulling plain text out of an HTML email
- Preparing scraped markup for analysis
- Getting readable text out of an export file