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About HTML Tags Stripper Online
This tool removes all HTML tags from a document, leaving only the plain text content. It correctly handles nested tags, self-closing tags, comments, script and style blocks (which it strips along with their contents), and HTML entities (which it decodes to their character form).
Useful when copying content from a web page where you only want the words, when preparing email or SMS text from an HTML source, when piping HTML into a downstream tool that expects plain text, or when sanitising user-submitted rich text for safe storage.
The tool offers options to preserve line breaks for block elements (so paragraphs stay separated) and to keep certain tags like <a> or <strong> if you want partial markup.
How to use this tool
How to extract plain text from HTML by removing all tags
Paste the HTML
Drop the HTML (whole page or fragment) into the "HTML" field. Tags like `<p>`, `<a href="…">`, `<br>` are scrubbed, leaving the text content between them. Attribute values are NOT preserved — only visible body text remains.
Press Run
Result returns a single `text` field. Whitespace runs are collapsed; line breaks at block boundaries (`<p>`, `<div>`, `<br>`) are converted to newlines so the output has readable paragraph structure.
What it doesn't handle
`<script>` and `<style>` content goes away (their contents become empty), but if you have inline event handlers (`onclick="…"`) those vanish along with the attribute — no concerns there. Encoded entities like `&` are decoded; `<` becomes `<`.
When to use
Generating a plaintext email body from an HTML template; counting words in a published article; feeding HTML-rich input to a tool that wants only text. For semantic preservation (links, lists), use `html-to-markdown-converter` instead.