Strip HTML Tags Online
HTML copied from a webpage, CMS editor, or email template carries tags like <p>, <div>, <span>, and <a> that clutter the text when you need plain content. Paste it here to strip every tag and get the readable text back without any markup. Your code never leaves your browser.
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How it works
Paste your HTML into the input panel and the tags are stripped automatically as you type. The plain text output appears in the right panel in real time. If you prefer to control when the tool runs, turn off auto-run and hit the run button manually once you are ready.
What gets stripped
All HTML tags are removed regardless of type. Block elements like <div>, <p>, <section>, and <article> go. Inline elements like <span>, <strong>, <em>, and <a> go. The text content inside those tags stays in the output.
Script and style blocks are removed entirely, including the code inside them. A <script> tag with JavaScript or a <style> tag with CSS gets deleted along with all its contents, not just the opening and closing tags. This is important because those blocks contain code, not visible text, and keeping them would pollute the output.
Attributes like class, id, href, and style are stripped along with their parent tags. When a tag goes, everything attached to it goes with it.
HTML entities like &, , and < are decoded into their plain text equivalents where possible, so the output reads as normal text rather than raw encoded characters.
Where this comes up
CMS and rich text editors are the most common source. Writing or copying content in WordPress, Notion, or any WYSIWYG editor generates markup behind the scenes. When you switch to the raw text view or copy from the editor into another tool, the tags come with the text. Stripping them gives you clean content that pastes cleanly anywhere.
Email templates in HTML format carry extensive markup, often with inline styles, table structures, and nested divs. Extracting just the message text from an HTML email template by hand takes time. Pasting the source into this tool does it in one step.
Web scraping and data extraction often produce raw HTML. If you have pulled page content programmatically or copied source from a browser’s view-source and need just the visible text, this strips everything else out. After stripping, if the text has broken spacing or extra gaps left by removed block elements, the remove extra spaces tool cleans those up.
User input sanitization is a security use case. If your application accepts text input from users and you need to remove any HTML they may have injected before storing or displaying it, stripping tags is the first line of defence against markup injection.