Remove HTML tags
Strip every HTML and XML tag and keep the readable text.
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Remove HTML tags
Paste a chunk of HTML and get the readable text back. The tool removes every tag — divs, spans, links, tables, entire documents — and leaves what a reader would actually see. It is the quickest way to lift an article out of a page's source, clean up a CMS or newsletter export, get an honest word count for copy that is still wrapped in markup, or turn a scraped fragment into a plain list.
Four options cover the cases where "strip everything" is too blunt. Decoding HTML entities turns & back into an ampersand, into a space and — into an em dash, so the text reads properly instead of showing its escape codes. Keeping line breaks gives <br> and block-level tags such as <p>, <li> and <h1> a newline each, so paragraphs stay paragraphs instead of collapsing into one run-on line; switch it off and the remaining text is joined exactly as it stood. The whitelist keeps the tags you name — type "b, i, a" and that formatting survives while everything else goes. Removing script and style contents drops those elements whole, so CSS rules and JavaScript never land in your text. It is on by default, because that is almost always what you want.
Stripping is done by a hand-written scanner, never by putting your HTML into the page, so nothing in the markup can run. Text is treated the way a browser treats it: "5 < 10" stays, comments and doctypes disappear, and a broken tag is dropped rather than half-printed.
Everything happens in your browser and nothing is uploaded, so internal pages, client work and unpublished drafts are safe to paste. Copy the result, download it as a .txt file, or move it back to the input for another cleanup pass.