Remove HTML Tags
Strip HTML tags from any content instantly — keep line breaks, decode entities and collapse whitespace, with a count of tags removed. Free tool.
About the Remove HTML Tags
Paste anything containing HTML — scraped content, CMS output, email source, rich-text copy — and this tool strips every tag, leaving clean text. Script and style blocks are removed together with their contents so no code leaks into the result, and HTML comments disappear too. A counter reports exactly how many tags were removed along with the before-and-after character sizes.
Three toggles control the cleanup: preserve line breaks converts <br> and closing block tags like </p> and </li> into real newlines (list items get a leading dash) so the text keeps its shape; decode entities turns &, and friends back into normal characters; and collapse whitespace tidies the runs of spaces and blank lines that tag removal leaves behind.
It's the quick, no-questions-asked cleaner for when you just want the tags gone — for a structure-aware conversion that rebuilds paragraphs and bullets more carefully, try the companion HTML to Text Converter. Everything runs instantly in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
How to Use the Remove HTML Tags
- 1Paste the HTML content you want cleaned.
- 2Toggle line-break preservation, entity decoding and whitespace collapsing.
- 3Check the tags-removed count and the clean text output.
- 4Copy the result with one click.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will JavaScript and CSS end up in my text?
No — <script>, <style> and <noscript> blocks are deleted along with everything inside them before tags are stripped, and HTML comments are removed too. That's the classic failure of naive find-and-replace approaches that this tool specifically avoids.
How does the 'preserve line breaks' option work?
Before stripping, <br> tags and the closing tags of block elements — paragraphs, divs, list items, headings, table rows — are converted to newlines, and list items get a leading dash. Turn it off and everything flows together into continuous text, which suits single-line outputs like meta descriptions.
What does entity decoding do?
HTML stores special characters as entities: & for &, < for <, for a non-breaking space, ’ for a curly apostrophe. With decoding on, all of these become the real characters, so the output reads naturally instead of showing raw codes.
When should I use this instead of the HTML to Text Converter?
Use this when you want fast, transparent tag removal with simple toggles — cleaning snippets, form input, or scraped fragments. Use the HTML to Text Converter when document structure matters: it parses the markup like a browser and reconstructs paragraphs, bullets and link URLs more faithfully.
Is there a size limit, and is anything uploaded?
No practical limit for normal documents — processing is local JavaScript in your browser, so even large pages clean in a blink. Nothing is transmitted or stored anywhere, making it safe for private and internal content.