How to use the HTML Tag Remover
1. Paste your HTML content (from a webpage, CMS, email template, or API response) into the left panel.
2. All HTML tags are stripped and HTML entities are decoded instantly.
3. Copy the clean plain text output for use in documents, databases, or analysis.
What is it?
HTML tag stripping extracts plain text content from HTML markup — removing all <tags> while preserving the visible text. This is essential when processing web-scraped content, cleaning CMS exports, generating plain-text email alternatives from HTML templates, or preparing text for natural language processing (NLP) and search indexing.
Beyond stripping tags, this tool also decodes common HTML entities: & becomes &, < becomes <, > becomes >, " becomes ", becomes a space, and ' becomes '. This ensures the output is clean natural language text rather than escaped markup.
Example
<h1>Hello <strong>World</strong></h1> <p>This is a <a href="#">link</a> in a paragraph.</p>
Hello World This is a link in a paragraph.
HTML entities (& < > ) are also decoded. Great for extracting text from email templates or scraped HTML.
Benefits
Extract plain text from HTML emails and web scrapes
Strip all markup to get only the content — essential before indexing, processing, or passing HTML content to a text analysis tool.
Clean AI-generated HTML before storing as plain text
LLMs sometimes wrap responses in HTML tags even when plain text was requested — strip the markup in one step.
Prepare HTML content for plain text email delivery
Remove markup for email clients that don't render HTML or for sending notification emails from HTML content.
Count words in HTML content accurately
Word counters count HTML tags as words — strip the HTML first to get an accurate count of actual content words.
Frequently asked questions
Does this preserve line breaks from the HTML?
The basic HTML tag remover strips tags but does not add newlines where block elements (<p>, <br>, <div>) existed. The text flows together. For preserving paragraph structure, you would need a more sophisticated HTML-to-text converter that handles block-level elements.
Is this safe to use on untrusted HTML?
For display purposes, yes — all tags are removed so there's no XSS risk in the plain text output. However, if you plan to re-render the output, always sanitize it. This tool is designed for text extraction, not HTML sanitization.
What HTML entities are decoded?
The following entities are decoded: &amp; → &, &lt; → <, &gt; → >, &quot; → ", &nbsp; → space, &#39; → '. For comprehensive entity decoding, use the HTML Entity Encoder/Decoder tool.