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HTML Stripper — Remove HTML Tags & Decode Entities to Plain Text

Strip HTML tags and decode entities to plain text. Toggles for line breaks, links, and whitespace preservation.

Free No signup Client-side Privacy friendly Updated

How to use

  1. 1 Paste your HTML.
  2. 2 Toggle "Keep line breaks" to convert <code class="font-mono text-xs">&lt;br&gt;</code> and block elements into newlines.
  3. 3 Toggle "Keep links" to preserve href URLs alongside link text.
  4. 4 Toggle "Preserve whitespace" if your HTML uses meaningful spacing.

Why use this tool

  • Parses via the browser's DOMParser — accurate, no fragile regex.
  • <code class="font-mono text-xs">&lt;script&gt;</code>, <code class="font-mono text-xs">&lt;style&gt;</code>, and <code class="font-mono text-xs">&lt;noscript&gt;</code> contents are dropped entirely.
  • HTML entities (<code class="font-mono text-xs">&amp;amp;</code>, <code class="font-mono text-xs">&amp;nbsp;</code>) are decoded automatically.
  • Pure client-side — your markup never leaves your browser.

Frequently asked questions

What's the difference between this and HTML to Markdown?

This strips all formatting to plain text. <a class="text-brand-600 hover:underline" href="/html-to-markdown">HTML to Markdown</a> preserves headings, lists, bold, links, and code blocks as Markdown syntax.

Why are scripts dropped?

Their content isn't visible text — extracting it would be misleading. Same for <code class="font-mono text-xs">&lt;style&gt;</code> blocks.

Related tools?

See <a class="text-brand-600 hover:underline" href="/html-table-extractor">HTML Table Extractor</a> for table-specific extraction, or <a class="text-brand-600 hover:underline" href="/html-entities-converter">HTML Entities Converter</a> to handle entity decoding alone.

What is HTML Stripper?

An HTML Stripper is a tool that removes HTML tags and decodes HTML entities to produce clean plain text from markup. It runs in the browser and offers toggles to control line break handling, link preservation, and whitespace, letting raw HTML be reduced to readable text suitable for copy, analysis, or further processing.

Features

Strip tags

Remove all HTML elements and decode entities to readable characters.

Formatting toggles

Keep or drop line breaks and links, and collapse extra whitespace.

100% private

Runs client-side — your markup never leaves the browser.

Example

Input

<p>Hello <b>world</b>! Visit <a href="/x">us</a>.</p>

Output

Hello world! Visit us.

Common use cases

  1. 1

    Get plain text from HTML

    Extract readable copy from a web page or rich email for reuse.

  2. 2

    Prep text for analysis

    Strip markup before word counting, summarizing, or NLP.

  3. 3

    Clean pasted content

    Remove hidden tags and styling from copied HTML.

Summary

Zerethon's HTML stripper removes tags and decodes HTML entities to produce clean plain text from markup, in your browser. Toggles control line-break handling, link preservation, and whitespace collapsing. Nothing is uploaded.

Category
Developer
Pricing
Free
Privacy
Browser-based
Signup
Not required

References

Privacy

Your data never leaves your browser unless explicitly stated. HTML Stripper runs entirely client-side — no server upload, no logging, no tracking of your input.

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