Remove HTML Tags
Strip all HTML code from your text and get back clean, readable plain text. Whether you're cleaning up web‑scraped content, removing formatting from an email, or extracting text from a webpage, this tool does it instantly. No signup, no uploads — everything runs right in your browser.
Why use this Remove HTML Tags tool?
HTML tags make text unreadable and bulky. When you copy content from websites, emails, or exported documents, you often end up with hidden markup that you don't need. This tool strips every angle‑bracketed tag, including <script>, <style>, and inline formatting, leaving only the plain text content. It's the quickest way to sanitize and prepare text for further use.
- Instant tag removal – all tags gone with a single click.
- Convert line breaks –
<br>tags become newlines for proper paragraph separation. - Decode entities – turn
&into&,<into<, and more. - Privacy‑first – processing stays entirely on your device.
How to remove HTML tags (step‑by‑step)
1. Paste your HTML
Copy the raw HTML from any source and drop it into the left box.
2. Choose options
Decide if
tags should become newlines and if HTML entities should be decoded. The defaults work well for most cases.
3. Get clean text
The cleaned text appears instantly on the right. No waiting, no server calls.
4. Copy or download
Use the buttons to copy the result to clipboard or save it as a .txt file.
Example: before and after
| Input HTML | Output plain text |
|---|---|
Hello & welcome to our site. Contact us at info@example.com. |
Hello & welcome to our site. Contact us at info@example.com. |
Common use cases
- Web scraping: Extract readable text from scraped HTML before further analysis.
- Email cleanup: Remove the HTML version of an email to get the plain text content.
- Data import: Strip formatting from exported data (like from CMS exports) before loading into a spreadsheet.
- Code cleaning: Remove HTML comments and embedded scripts/styles from templates.
- Accessibility: Convert rich text to plain text for screen readers or plain text viewers.
Pro tips
- If your HTML contains inline CSS or JavaScript, those will be removed as well — only the visible text survives.
- After removing tags, you can further clean the text with our Whitespace Cleaner or Text Cleaner to remove extra spaces and lines.
- The "Convert <br> to newlines" option treats
<br>,<br/>, and<br />the same way — it handles all common variations. - If you need to preserve some formatting like paragraphs and links, check out our more sophisticated HTML to Text converter.