Remove HTML Tags – Free Online Tool
Free online Remove HTML Tags tool to strip HTML tags from text instantly. Extract plain text from HTML code and clean up markup. Perfect for content extraction and text processing. All processing happens locally.
Example Output
Tags removed, text content preserved.
Hello world!
What is Remove HTML Tags?
Remove HTML Tags strips every <tag> from a chunk of HTML, leaving just the readable text. Useful for extracting plain text from CMS exports, cleaning email bodies that arrived as HTML, prepping content for word counters or text analysis tools, and producing accessible text-only versions.
Why use this tool?
- Stable behavior across visits — no surprise version drift
- Your data stays private — all processing happens locally in the browser
- No telemetry, no tracking pixels, no third-party scripts
- Cleanly handles pasted content with mixed line endings (CRLF, LF, CR)
- No character or word-count cap on the input
How to use
- Paste your HTML (full document or fragment)
- Click Strip — every <tag> is removed, leaving the readable text
- Optional: collapse whitespace afterwards for clean output
- Copy the plain text result
Examples
Strip a CMS export
Paste the HTML version of a blog post — get the prose only, ready for translation tools or readability checkers.
Clean a scraped page
After scraping, remove all tags to focus on the textual content for downstream analysis.
Common use cases
- Extracting readable text from CMS or rich-text exports
- Preparing text for word-counting and readability analysis
- Cleaning scraped HTML for NLP pipelines
- Stripping markup before pasting into plain-text editors
Troubleshooting
- <script> contents (JavaScript code) appears in output.
- Pure tag-stripping leaves text content. Run output through a script/style block remover first, or use HTML to Markdown for smarter conversion.
Frequently Asked Questions
HTML tags are markup elements like <p>, <div>, <span> that define document structure. They are enclosed in angle brackets and usually come in pairs.
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