HTML Tag Stripper

Text tools

Remove HTML tags and dangerous embedded content using inert browser parsing.

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How to use Strip HTML Tags

  1. Paste HTML source or select a local HTML or text file.
  2. Choose all, structural, remove-list, or keep-list mode and the spacing options.
  3. Inspect decoded text and line breaks before copying or downloading it.

Supported behavior

HTML Tag Stripper extracts textual content from markup with explicit choices about structure. It can remove every tag and concatenate text, preserve useful line breaks, remove only named tags, or keep only an allowed set. Options retain block-element boundaries, br newlines, and list bullets, decode entities, and collapse whitespace. Parsing occurs in an inert document rather than the live page, so input markup cannot execute. Script, style, template, noscript, and dangerous embedded content can be removed together with their contents by default instead of leaking code or styling into the result. The final output is plain text or the intentionally retained safe tag representation for the selected mode, never an activated preview of source markup. Pasted HTML and local .html, .htm, or .txt files stay within your browser and are never uploaded. Malformed markup is repaired according to browser parser rules, so the recovered structure can differ from the author’s literal source.

  • Malformed HTML follows browser error-recovery rules and may not reflect the intended source hierarchy.
  • Visual layout created only by CSS cannot be reconstructed after style content is removed.

Examples

Paragraphs and entity

                <p>Tea &amp; coffee</p><p>Water</p>

Result: Tea & coffee Water (with block line breaks)

Dangerous content removed

                <h1>Report</h1><script>alert('x')</script><p>Ready.</p>

Result: Report Ready.

Common use cases

  • Remove markup from a copied article while retaining paragraph breaks.
  • Extract list text with readable bullet prefixes.
  • Strip unsafe embedded sections from an HTML sample used in documentation.

Frequently asked questions

Can scripts run while tags are stripped?

No. Source is parsed inertly and never inserted as raw HTML into the live page.

Are script contents kept as visible text?

Dangerous embedded sections, including script and style, are removable with their contents by default.

Will &amp; stay encoded?

Entity decoding is available, so &amp; can become the plain-text ampersand character.

Can list bullets survive?

Yes. Enable preservation of list-item bullets along with structural line breaks.

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