Strip HTML Tags

What Is the Strip HTML Tags Tool?

The Strip HTML Tags tool removes all HTML markup from your content and returns the plain text that was wrapped inside it. Paste in a chunk of HTML, click Remove HTML Tags, and everything between the angle brackets gets stripped out while the actual readable text stays behind. It is useful for extracting content from web page source code, cleaning up copied HTML before pasting it into a plain-text document, or getting readable output out of a CMS export that included all the surrounding markup.

HTML tags have a way of making content completely unreadable until you strip them, and doing it manually across several paragraphs is exactly as irritating as it sounds.

How to Use This Tool

1. Paste or type your HTML code or markup-heavy text into the input box above.
2. No settings needed. The tool identifies and removes all standard HTML tags from the input automatically when you run it.
3. Click Remove HTML Tags and the tool returns your content with all tags stripped, leaving only the text that was inside them.
4. Copy the result using the Copy button, or select and copy manually. Use Clear to reset the input.

When Would You Use This?

Extracting readable text from a web page's HTML source code, a CMS export, or an email template where the actual content is buried inside divs, spans, and other markup.

Cleaning up text copied directly from a website or web application that brought along HTML tags when pasted, turning a mess of angle brackets into clean readable content.

Preparing HTML content for use in a plain-text environment, a spreadsheet, a database field, or any system that does not render markup and would display the raw tags instead of interpreting them.

Examples

Stripping basic paragraph tags

Input   : <p>Hello, this is some <strong>bold</strong> text.</p>
Output  : Hello, this is some bold text.

Removing div and span markup

Input   : <div class="content"><span>Welcome to our website.</span></div>
Output  : Welcome to our website.

Extracting link text

Input   : Visit our <a href="https://example.com">homepage</a> for more information.
Output  : Visit our homepage for more information.

Cleaning up a full HTML snippet

Input   : <h1>Article Title</h1><p>This is the <em>first</em> paragraph.</p><p>This is the second paragraph.</p>
Output  : Article Title This is the first paragraph. This is the second paragraph.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I remove HTML tags from text?

Paste your HTML into the input box and click Remove HTML Tags. All markup is stripped and only the plain text content remains in the output.

How do I strip HTML tags in Python?

A common approach is to use the html.parser module with a custom parser, or install the BeautifulSoup library and use soup.get_text(). For a quick manual strip without writing code, paste into this tool.

How do I remove HTML tags in Excel?

Excel does not have a native way to strip HTML. You can use a VBA macro that applies a regex substitution, or use Power Query with a custom function. For plain-text conversion outside of Excel, this tool is faster.

What does stripping HTML tags mean?

It means removing all the HTML markup elements from a piece of text, the angle-bracket tags like div, p, span, a, strong, and so on, leaving only the visible content that a browser would normally render.

Does it remove inline styles and attributes too?

Yes. The entire tag is removed including any attributes, class names, inline styles, or data attributes attached to it. Only the text content between the tags is kept.

How do I extract text from HTML in JavaScript?

Create a temporary DOM element, set its innerHTML to your HTML string, then read the textContent property: let el = document.createElement('div'); el.innerHTML = html; let text = el.textContent. For a no-code option, paste into this tool.

Will it remove script and style tag content?

This depends on the tool's implementation. Some strip only the tags and leave the content inside script and style blocks, while others remove those blocks entirely. Check the output if your HTML contains script or style sections.

How do I copy text from a website without HTML formatting?

One approach is to paste the copied content into this tool and strip the tags. Another is to paste into a plain text editor like Notepad first, which discards formatting on its own. The tool is more thorough for content that still contains tag markup after pasting.

Does this work on malformed or partial HTML?

It handles most real-world HTML including incomplete or malformed markup, since it targets anything between angle brackets rather than requiring well-formed tag structure. Edge cases with unusual nesting or very broken markup may produce imperfect results.