Remove HTML Tags

Convert HTML into clean plain text with optional formatting cleanup.

Remove HTML Tags

Strip markup and export clean plain text with readable formatting.

Input

Result

Paste HTML on the left and click Remove Tags to generate clean plain text here.

About Remove HTML Tags

Remove HTML Tags — remove HTML tags tool

Turn messy markup into clean, readable text in seconds. Remove HTML Tags strips scripts, styles, and decorative markup so you can focus on the words that matter. Use it for SEO audits, content migration, quick copy cleanup, and safe text extraction from any HTML snippet.

Paste HTML from a webpage, email template, CMS editor, or scraped source, choose whether to keep line breaks and decode entities, then generate plain text you can copy or download. The output is formatted for readability and built for everyday workflows.

HTML is great for browsers, but it can slow you down when you are trying to edit or analyze content. Tags like <span> and <div> add structure and styling, yet they also introduce clutter when you just need the words. Copying from a webpage often brings hidden elements, inconsistent spacing, and encoded characters that look strange in a document. Removing tags is a reliable first step that turns a “web page” into “text you can work with”.

For teams that handle content at scale, clean extraction helps standardize inputs. For example, SEO specialists might paste HTML into an analyzer, editors might move text into a brief, and product teams might want consistent copy for UI strings. A simple, repeatable conversion process reduces friction across all of these tasks.

Line breaks are a common pain point. A naive tag stripper can collapse everything into one long line, making the result hard to scan. By translating common block-level tags into newlines first, the “Keep line breaks” option preserves the shape of the content. That means headings, paragraphs, and list items are separated in a way that feels natural in plain text.

Entity decoding is the other big quality upgrade. Web editors frequently encode punctuation and symbols to keep HTML valid. Without decoding, your output may contain sequences that look like code instead of language. Decoding restores normal characters so your cleaned text is ready for publishing, proofreading, or analysis.

If you’re preparing content for accessibility checks, plain text is also useful for verifying that the meaningful text is present without relying on styling. It can help you spot missing alt text references, repeated navigation labels, or unnecessary boilerplate that should be removed before publishing. Likewise, for email deliverability testing, a plain-text version of your message is often recommended, and stripping HTML provides a quick starting point.

Developers can use this tool when debugging templates or API responses that include HTML fragments. Seeing only the text layer can reveal whether placeholders are populated correctly and whether the user-facing copy reads as expected. Researchers and analysts can paste snippets from documentation, forum posts, or scraped pages, then export a clean dataset for downstream processing.

While there are many ways to manipulate HTML, a focused “remove tags” workflow remains one of the most dependable. It is easy to understand, easy to verify, and produces output that plays well with almost any destination tool—notes apps, spreadsheets, word processors, translation platforms, and AI summarizers.

How It Works

This tool converts HTML into plain text by following a simple pipeline: normalize structure, remove tags, then tidy the final text. It is designed to be predictable, fast, and easy to verify.

Step-by-step process

  • 1) Normalize breaks: If you enable “Keep line breaks”, common layout tags (like <br>, <p>, and list items) are converted into newline characters before stripping tags.
  • 2) Strip markup: All remaining HTML tags are removed, including attributes, inline styles, and embedded elements.
  • 3) Decode entities: If you enable “Decode entities”, encoded characters such as &amp; or &nbsp; are converted into their readable equivalents.
  • 4) Clean whitespace: Extra spaces and repeated blank lines are reduced so the text reads naturally.
  • 5) Export: Copy the output to your clipboard or download it as a plain .txt file.

Because the workflow is deterministic, you can paste the same HTML again later and expect consistent output—useful for audits, migrations, and repeatable QA checks.

For content teams, a clean text layer makes comparisons easier. You can paste two versions of a page’s HTML, strip tags from both, and compare the resulting plain text to see what actually changed for readers. That is helpful during redesigns, A/B tests, and localization updates where markup changes might be noisy but the words are what you need to review.

Another practical benefit is portability. Plain text is the lowest common denominator across tools and operating systems. Once tags are removed, you can safely paste into forms, ticketing systems, documentation tools, or chat apps without triggering unexpected formatting. It’s also easier to index and search, which is handy when building internal knowledge bases or preparing content for archival.

If you work with multilingual content, stripping HTML before translation can reduce errors. Translators usually want sentences, not tags. Clean input improves consistency and helps translation memory tools match phrases more accurately. After translation, you can reapply formatting in your editor of choice using the structure you actually want, rather than inheriting someone else’s HTML.

Finally, remember that “plain text” does not have to mean “unstyled and ugly.” The best plain-text output is readable: paragraphs separated, lists on new lines, and characters decoded. That’s exactly why the tool offers options to preserve breaks and decode entities—so your cleaned copy is ready for the next step the moment you generate it.

Key Features

Clean plain-text extraction

Removes tags while keeping the human-readable text content intact. It’s ideal when you want words only—no markup, no inline styling, no HTML noise.

Optional line break preservation

Choose to keep line breaks so paragraphs and lists remain readable after conversion. This is especially helpful for emails, CMS exports, and long-form articles.

Entity decoding

Converts encoded characters into real punctuation and symbols, improving readability and reducing manual fixes. This includes common entities used by web editors and copy-paste flows.

Fast copy and download

Copy output with one click or download as a text file for storage, sharing, or importing into another tool. Great for writers, analysts, and developers.

Safe, predictable cleanup

The tool focuses on plain-text conversion rather than HTML rendering. That means you get consistent results across browsers and content sources.

Use Cases

  • Content migration: Extract article text from an old CMS export before reformatting it in a new system.
  • SEO review: Pull visible page copy from HTML to evaluate keyword usage, headings, and density without markup distractions.
  • Email cleanup: Convert newsletter templates into plain-text versions for accessibility checks and deliverability testing.
  • Scraping and research: Quickly turn scraped HTML snippets into readable notes for analysis and summarization.
  • Developer debugging: Strip tags from API responses or template output when you only need the text layer.
  • Copywriting workflows: Remove editor markup from drafts and paste clean text into documents, briefs, or translation tools.

In short: whenever HTML gets in the way of reading, editing, analyzing, or moving content, removing tags gives you a clean starting point.

Optimization Tips

Keep readability by preserving breaks

If your source includes paragraphs, bullet lists, or line-based formatting, enable “Keep line breaks”. This converts common structural tags to newlines so the text stays scannable.

Decode entities for accurate copy

When you see sequences like &#8217;, &amp;, or &nbsp;, turn on “Decode entities”. It restores apostrophes, ampersands, and spacing to their natural form.

Check for hidden content

HTML can contain text that isn’t meant to be visible (like navigation labels or template fragments). After conversion, skim the result and remove anything that doesn’t belong to your final copy.

FAQ

Yes. All tags are stripped, so embedded <script> and <style> sections are removed along with other markup. The goal is plain text, not rendered HTML.

If you enable “Keep line breaks”, the tool converts common layout tags such as paragraphs, breaks, and list items into newline characters before removing the rest of the markup.

Entities are encoded representations of characters (for example, &amp; for &). Decoding them makes your output easier to read and reduces manual cleanup after copy-paste.

The output is plain text. That means it contains no HTML tags, which helps avoid accidental formatting or unwanted embedded code when pasting into documents, chats, or CMS editors.

Yes. Use the Download button to save the cleaned output as a .txt file. This is useful for archiving, sharing, or importing into other tools.

Why Choose This Tool

When you need plain text, speed and consistency matter. This tool is built for everyday, practical workflows: writers cleaning drafts, marketers reviewing landing page copy, developers extracting text from templates, and researchers converting scraped snippets into notes.

With options for line breaks and entity decoding, you can choose output that matches your destination—whether that’s a document, a spreadsheet, a translation workflow, or an SEO audit. The interface is simple, the results are readable, and the export options help you move forward without manual reformatting.