What Is the Remove HTML Tags Tool?
The Remove HTML Tags tool converts HTML source code into clean, readable plain text by stripping away all markup. Six modes handle different scenarios — from a simple tag strip to a smart converter that also decodes HTML entities, preserves paragraph breaks, and even outputs Markdown. Everything runs in your browser; no HTML is uploaded anywhere.
How to Use the Remove HTML Tags Tool
- Paste your HTML into the left box — works with full page HTML, snippets, email bodies, or CMS exports.
- Choose a strip mode — Strip All Tags is fastest; Convert to Markdown is best for CMS migrations.
- Check the stats bar — see how many tags were found and how many characters were removed.
- Copy or Download the clean plain text output.
Where Can You Use Remove HTML Tags?
CMS Content Migration
Strip WordPress or Drupal HTML before importing into a new CMS that expects plain text or Markdown.
Email Data Cleanup
Convert HTML email bodies into plain text for analysis, searching, or display in plain-text clients.
NLP Preprocessing
Clean HTML from scraped web content before feeding it into a language model or search index.
Accessibility Auditing
Extract the visible text content of a page to audit reading order and check for missing alt text or context.
Strip Modes Available
- Strip All Tags — Removes every
<tag>using a fast regex. Best for quick plain-text extraction where structure doesn't matter. - Preserve Line Breaks — Converts block tags (
<br>,</p>,</div>) to newlines before stripping — preserves the visual paragraph structure. - Extract Links — Transforms
<a href="url">text</a>intotext (url)so hyperlink destinations are retained in the plain text output. - Decode HTML Entities — Strips tags AND converts
&,<,©,€and 20+ named/numeric entities back to real characters. - Remove Scripts & Styles — Deletes the full content of
<script>and<style>blocks before stripping remaining markup. - Convert to Markdown — Converts headings, bold, italic, links, and lists to Markdown syntax — ideal before importing into a Markdown-based CMS.
Best Practices and Limitations
Always choose the right mode for your task. Use Preserve Line Breaks when the visual paragraph structure matters — email cleanup, blog posts, and news articles. Use Remove Scripts & Styles on any untrusted HTML to ensure JavaScript code and CSS selectors never appear in your output.
Limitations: This tool uses regex-based tag matching, not a full HTML parser. Malformed HTML with unclosed or deeply nested tags may produce unexpected results. The Convert to Markdown mode handles basic formatting only — tables, definition lists, and custom elements are stripped rather than converted. For production-grade HTML parsing, use a proper DOM parser.
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