Strip HTML Tags
Remove HTML tags and get clean plain text, with entities decoded and whitespace tidied. Optionally keep basic formatting tags. Free online tool.
Input
Result
The result appears here as you type.
What this tool is for
Extract the readable text from a block of markup: tags removed, entities decoded, blank lines collapsed. Useful for word counts on a rendered page, for cleaning content pasted out of a website, and for sanity checking what a scraper actually captured.
How to use it
- Paste the HTML.
- Choose whether script and style contents should be dropped entirely.
- Copy the plain text.
Frequently asked questions
Is stripping tags enough to sanitise user input?
No. Removing tags from untrusted input is a text cleanup, not a security boundary. If the text will be rendered as HTML again, escape it on output instead.