HTML to Text (Strip Tags)

Remove HTML tags to get clean plain text.

Paste HTML and get clean plain text with all the tags removed. Keep the line breaks from block elements, or collapse everything into a single flow. Handy for cleaning up rich-text copy, emails, and CMS content.

HTML

Keep line breaks

Plain text

Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

How to use the html to text (strip tags)

1Paste your HTML.
2Choose whether to keep line breaks.
3Copy the plain-text result.

Frequently asked questions

Does it run any scripts in the HTML?

No — the HTML is parsed safely to extract text only; no scripts or markup are ever executed.

What happens to entities like &amp;?

They're decoded to their real characters (for example &amp; becomes &) in the plain-text output.

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