Strip HTML Tags from Text
Paste any HTML below and the tool extracts readable plain text instantly, keeping paragraph breaks and list structure intact.
The extracted text will appear here as you type.Everything runs locally in your browser — your HTML is never uploaded.
How it works
- Paste your HTML source code or copied rich text into the input box — the plain-text result appears immediately below it.
- Toggle the options to keep link URLs in parentheses or to collapse blank lines into a tighter layout.
- Click Copy to put the clean text on your clipboard, or Download .txt to save it as a file.
Frequently asked questions
- How does this tool remove HTML tags?
- It parses your input with the browser’s built-in DOMParser, the same engine that renders web pages, then walks the document tree and extracts only the text. Block-level elements like paragraphs and divs become line breaks, and list items are prefixed with a dash, so the output stays readable instead of collapsing into one long line.
- Is my HTML uploaded to a server?
- No. Everything runs locally in your browser using JavaScript — the text never leaves your device and no network request is made. You can even load the page, disconnect from the internet, and the tool keeps working.
- Does it remove scripts and CSS too?
- Yes. Content inside script, style, noscript and template elements is skipped entirely, so you never get stray JavaScript code or CSS rules mixed into the extracted text. Only visible, human-readable content is kept.
- Can I keep the link URLs from the HTML?
- Yes — enable the “Keep link URLs” option and every hyperlink’s address is appended in parentheses right after its anchor text, for example “our pricing page (https://example.com/pricing)”. This is useful when you need a plain-text version of an email or article where the destinations still matter.
- Why do I see extra blank lines in the result?
- Nested containers such as divs inside sections each produce a line break, which can stack up in heavily structured HTML. Turn on the “Collapse blank lines” option to merge consecutive empty lines into single line breaks for a compact result.
About this tool
This tool converts HTML markup into clean, readable plain text. Paste a page’s source code, a snippet copied from a CMS, or an HTML email, and the tags disappear while the actual content — with its paragraph structure — remains. Unlike naive regex-based strippers, it understands document structure: paragraphs, divs and headings become separate lines, br tags become line breaks, and list items are rendered with a leading dash so bulleted content stays scannable.
Under the hood the tool uses DOMParser, the HTML parsing engine built into every modern browser. Your input is parsed into a real document tree, then traversed node by node: script, style and other non-visible elements are skipped, text nodes are collected, and whitespace is normalized the way a browser would render it. Because parsing happens entirely on your device, nothing is transmitted anywhere — safe even for confidential drafts, internal emails or unpublished content.
Typical uses include cleaning up text copied from websites before pasting it into a document, extracting article content for word counts or translation, converting HTML newsletters into plain-text versions, preparing training or search-index data, and stripping formatting that word processors refuse to let go of. The optional link-preservation mode keeps every URL in parentheses, which is exactly what you want when producing the plain-text alternative part of a marketing email.
A few practical tips: paste complete pages freely — head content, scripts and styles are filtered out automatically, so you don’t need to trim the input first. If deeply nested layouts produce too much vertical space, enable “Collapse blank lines”. The live character and word counts below the result make it easy to check length limits before you copy the text or download it as a .txt file.