Free online HTML tag stripper and sanitizer. Remove HTML tags from content, decode HTML entities, and extract clean plain text. Multiple stripping modes including allow-listing specific tags. Perfect for cleaning HTML email content, RSS feeds, web scraped data, and user-generated content. 100% browser-based.
100% browser-based — your data never leaves your device
Strip HTML tags from content and extract clean plain text with multiple stripping modes.
Copy the HTML you want to clean and paste it into the input area.
Select Strip All Tags, Keep Line Breaks, or Extract Text Only depending on your needs.
Click Copy to grab the stripped text for use in your application.
Drop a file here or click to browse
Ctrl+Enter to sanitize
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HTML Tag Stripper is a free online text tool that strip html tags from content and extract clean plain text with multiple stripping modes. It works entirely in your browser — no downloads, no installations, and no server uploads required. content writers, developers, technical writers use HTML Tag Stripper when they need a fast, privacy-respecting way to process text data without installing additional software. It supports capabilities such as multiple stripping modes, html entity decoding, character count diff. Additional features include local only. Common use cases include extracting readable text from html emails and web pages, cleaning html content for text analysis and processing, removing formatting before pasting content into text-only fields. All processing happens locally using modern browser APIs, which means your data never leaves your device. This makes HTML Tag Stripper ideal for working with sensitive data, proprietary code, or any situation where privacy matters.
HTML Tag Stripper is a free online text tool that helps you strip html tags from content and extract clean plain text with multiple stripping modes. Key capabilities include multiple stripping modes, html entity decoding, character count diff. All processing is done locally in your browser — no data is uploaded, stored, or shared with any server. There are no sign-ups, no file size limits, and no hidden charges. It is commonly used to extracting readable text from html emails and web pages.
Copy the HTML you want to clean and paste it into the input area.
Select Strip All Tags, Keep Line Breaks, or Extract Text Only depending on your needs.
Click Copy to grab the stripped text for use in your application.
| Category | Details |
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| Input Limits | Maximum input length: Browser memory bound |
| Encoding support: UTF-8, UTF-16, ASCII, ISO-8859-1, Windows-1252 | |
| Supported Formats | Plain text, UTF-8, ASCII, Unicode, Percent-encoding (RFC 3986) |
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All operations run entirely in your browser using built-in Text APIs. No server uploads, no data storage, and no third-party requests.
HTML Tag Stripper is ideal when you need to extracting readable text from html emails and web pages without installing software or uploading data to a server. Since everything runs in your browser, there is no setup time and no risk of your data being stored on external servers. For for advanced text manipulation within an IDE, consider using VS Code. For for batch text processing on servers, sed/awk (command-line) may be a better fit. HTML Tag Stripper fills the gap between heavyweight desktop tools and insecure online services that require uploading your data.
No. HTML Tag Stripper processes everything entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Nothing you type, paste, or upload is ever transmitted to any server. Your data never leaves your device.
All standard HTML tags are supported. The tool handles tags, attributes, comments, script/style blocks, and HTML entities.
HTML entities like & (&), < (<), > (>), " ("), and ' (') are decoded back to their actual characters in the output.
Strip all tags completely, preserve line breaks from block elements, or extract only visible text.
Decodes common HTML entities like & < > " and numeric entities back to their characters.
See how many characters and lines were removed, with before/after comparison.
All processing happens in your browser. Your data never leaves your device.
HTML Tag Stripper is useful in a variety of scenarios across different workflows:
Extracting readable text from HTML emails and web pages
Cleaning HTML content for text analysis and processing
Removing formatting before pasting content into text-only fields
When stripping HTML from articles or blog posts, use the 'Keep Line Breaks' mode to preserve paragraph structure. This gives you cleaner, more readable plain text output.
HTML entities like & and < are automatically decoded. Review the output to ensure special characters were correctly converted.
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