HTML Tag Stripper
Text & StringStrip all or selected HTML tags from any content and extract clean plain text. Preserve links, images, or specific elements while removing all other markup safely.
HTML Input
Stripped Text
28 chars · 6 words
About HTML Tag Stripper
The HTML Tag Stripper removes HTML markup from content, leaving clean, readable plain text. It handles everything from simple inline tags like `<b>` and `<span>` to full HTML documents with `<head>`, `<body>`, and `<script>` sections. You can strip all tags completely, or use the selective mode to preserve specific elements—for example, keep `<a>` links and `<img>` alt text while removing all formatting tags. The tool also decodes HTML entities automatically, so `&`, `<`, and ` ` are converted to their plain text equivalents in the output, making it ideal for preparing HTML content for plain-text emails, data processing, or accessibility audits.
Features
- ✓Strip all HTML tags to produce clean, unformatted plain text
- ✓Selective tag removal: specify which tags to keep or remove
- ✓Automatic HTML entity decoding (& → &, < → <, → space)
- ✓Preserve <a> link text and href URLs in the output
- ✓Extract <img> alt text as inline text in the output
- ✓Remove <script> and <style> blocks including their content
- ✓Collapse multiple blank lines and normalize whitespace
- ✓Works on HTML fragments as well as full HTML documents
Common Use Cases
- Converting HTML email templates to plain-text fallback versions
- Extracting readable text from scraped web pages for data processing
- Sanitizing user-submitted HTML content before storing or displaying it
- Preparing HTML documentation for plain-text indexing or search
- Removing formatting tags from rich-text editor output for plain storage
- Running accessibility audits by examining a page's text content only
Frequently Asked Questions
QDoes the tool handle malformed or unclosed HTML tags?
Yes. The stripper uses a lenient parser that handles unclosed tags, mismatched nesting, and malformed attribute syntax, which is common in real-world HTML content.
QAre HTML entities like & and decoded?
Yes. All standard HTML entities are decoded to their plain text equivalents automatically. & becomes &, < becomes <, and becomes a regular space.
QCan I keep specific tags like links or headings?
Yes. In selective mode, enter a comma-separated list of tags to preserve (e.g., 'a, h1, h2'). All other tags are stripped while the listed tags remain in the output.
QIs script and style content removed along with the tags?
Yes. <script> and <style> blocks are stripped together with their inner content, preventing JavaScript code or CSS rules from appearing in the plain text output.