Convert HTML into clean plain text, removing tags, scripts and styles.
Strip HTML tags to get clean plain text. Script and style blocks are removed entirely (not just their tags), block elements become line breaks so structure survives, and HTML entities are decoded into real characters.
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Do not rely on it for security. Stripping tags here is for getting readable text out of markup, not for sanitising hostile input. Proper defence against XSS needs a dedicated sanitiser on your server plus correct escaping at output time — tag removal alone has been bypassed in many creative ways.
They are decoded back into the characters they represent, so & becomes & and becomes a space. Without that step you end up with text full of visible entity codes, which is the usual complaint when people strip tags with a simple regex instead.
Line breaks are kept where block elements implied them, so paragraphs and list items do not run together into one wall of text. Formatting like bold, links and headings disappears, since plain text cannot express them. If you need the structure, convert to Markdown instead of stripping.
Yes, Strip HTML Tags is completely free. No signup, no account, and no watermark on outputs. A Pro tier is available for 100 AI ops/day and larger file sizes.
Strip HTML Tags runs entirely in your browser. Your file is never uploaded — it is read, processed and saved locally, so it never reaches our servers or anyone else's. You can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and it still works.
Script and style content is removed too: Removing only the tags would leave the JavaScript and CSS *inside* them sitting in your text. This strips those blocks entirely, along with HTML comments, so you get the readable content and nothing else.
Structure becomes line breaks: With this on, <br> and the end of block elements (paragraphs, list items, headings, table rows) become newlines — so the text keeps its shape instead of running together into one paragraph.
Entities are decoded: Numeric and named entities (&, , —, ') become the characters they represent, which is almost always what you want when moving HTML into a document.
Privacy: Everything happens locally in your browser. Safe for internal pages, client work and unpublished content.