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HTML Stripper
Paste any HTML and get clean, readable plain text — tags removed, entities decoded, whitespace tidied.
What this tool does
Paste a chunk of HTML — straight from the View Source of a page, an email template, a CMS rich-text export, or a webpage you copied with markup — and get clean readable plain text out the other side. Block-level tags become line breaks, <br> becomes a newline, anchor tags optionally keep their URLs in parentheses, and named/numeric entities (&, —) are decoded to real characters.
How to use the HTML stripper
Paste your HTML into the input field. The plain-text output updates as you type. Use Keep link URLs to preserve <a> hrefs in parentheses after the link text — useful for printable versions of articles. Collapse extra whitespace reduces runs of spaces and blank lines that came from indented HTML, and Trim removes leading and trailing whitespace from the whole output. Click Copy to put the result on your clipboard.
When to use this tool
Cleaning up content pasted from a web page (which often comes with stray <span> and inline styles), preparing email-newsletter copy from an HTML draft, generating alt-text from rich-content blocks, or simply checking the readable contents of a markup snippet. The output is suitable for anywhere plain text is required: text-only emails, terminal output, search-engine descriptions, or content-length analysis.
Examples
| Input | Output |
|---|---|
<p>Hello <b>world</b></p> | Hello world |
Line one<br>Line two | Line one |
<ul><li>A</li><li>B</li></ul> | A |
<a href="x.com">Site</a> | Site (x.com) |
& " | & " |
Frequently asked questions
Does it strip all tags?
<p>, <div>, <li>, headings, etc.) become newlines so paragraph breaks are preserved. <br> also becomes a newline. <script>, <style> and similar tags have their content discarded entirely, which is what you almost always want.Are HTML entities decoded?
&, ", —, –, …, etc.) and numeric entities (–, —) are converted to the actual characters. So & becomes &, — becomes a real em-dash.What does Keep link URLs do?
<a href="https://example.com">site</a> becomes site (https://example.com) instead of just site. Useful for printing or for anywhere the reader can't click. When off, only the visible text is kept and the URL is dropped.How is whitespace handled?
Can I paste an entire HTML page?
<script>, <style>, <noscript>, <template> and <iframe> blocks have their content discarded, so the output is the readable copy of the page — what a screen-reader or search engine would see, roughly. For very large pages, the conversion still completes in your browser without a server round-trip.