HTML Stripper
Free HTML stripper - remove HTML tags and keep plain text for notes, imports, and clean edits.
About the HTML Stripper
This free HTML stripper removes tags and leaves the visible text. It is useful when you paste content from a CMS, email, or webpage and need plain text for notes, word counts, CSV fields, or a clean import into another tool.
Paste HTML source or mixed rich content, strip tags, tidy leftover blank lines if needed, then copy the plain text. This is for text extraction - not a full sanitizer for safely re-rendering untrusted HTML.
Common use cases
- Turning a copied article body into plain text for an outline
- Cleaning CMS exports before counting words or checking frequency
- Removing markup from email HTML before pasting into a ticket
- Preparing text for tools that break on raw tags
How to use
- Paste HTML source or mixed rich content into the input.
- Run the stripper to get plain text.
- Remove extra blank lines if the source had block-level tags.
- Copy the text into your destination editor or tool.
Tips
- Script and style contents may need extra cleanup depending on the source HTML.
- Stripping tags is not XSS sanitization for safe rich rendering - use a dedicated sanitizer if you re-display HTML.
- Decode entities afterward if you still see sequences like
&or . - Pair with the Whitespace Remover or HTML Entities Decoder for a cleaner final pass.
FAQ
Will this preserve links? Usually you get the link text, not a guaranteed markdown or URL list, unless you extract href values separately.
Does it keep images? Image tags are removed; alt text may remain depending on how the HTML was written.
Is the result safe to email as HTML? No - the output is plain text. Rebuild markup intentionally if you need HTML again.