Remove HTML tags and keep the text, with control over breaks and links. Fast, free, and built for simple browser-based workflows.
Paste your HTML above, then click Strip HTML Tags.
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HTML Tag Stripper is a free online tool that removes every tag from a block of markup and leaves the readable text behind. Paste the HTML, click Strip HTML Tags, and the wording comes back as plain text, with paragraph breaks and link URLs kept or dropped exactly as you choose.
It helps when the markup is in the way of the words: pulling the copy out of an exported newsletter to check its word count, turning a saved web page into notes, lifting a description field out of a product feed, or quoting an article without dragging its formatting along. Script and style blocks are removed too, so none of the page's code lands in your text.
Everything runs inside your browser on an inert copy of the document, so nothing in the markup is executed and no image or script it references is ever fetched. Nothing is uploaded either, which matters when the HTML is an internal email, a client's page or an unpublished draft. The plain text stays on your device unless you copy or download it.
Drop the markup into the HTML Input box. A fragment works as well as a full page.
Keep paragraph line breaks and Collapse repeated blank lines are ticked by default. Tick Keep link URLs in brackets when the addresses matter as much as the words.
Click Strip HTML Tags. The line above the result shows the character and word count of the text and how much HTML it came from.
Click Copy for the clipboard, or Download to save it as plain-text.txt. Clear empties both boxes.
Yes! All our tools are 100% free to use with no hidden costs, no registration required, and no credit card needed.
Absolutely. All tools run entirely in your browser (client-side). Your data never leaves your device and is not sent to our servers.
Yes, once the page is loaded, the tool will continue to work even if you lose internet connection since it runs in your browser.
There is no strict character limit, but very large amounts of text (100,000+ characters) may slow down your browser.
Yes! All our tools are free for both personal and commercial use.
All of it is kept -- only the tags go. Heading text, list items and link labels stay in the order they appeared. With Keep paragraph line breaks ticked, each paragraph, heading, list item and table row also ends in a line break, so the result still reads as separate blocks.
Tick it when the destination cannot show a link, such as a plain-text email or a printed page, because the address would otherwise vanish silently. Leave it off when you only want the wording, for instance when checking a word count. Links pointing within the same page are skipped either way.
Both end with plain text, but this page is about controlling the layout on the way out: whether paragraph breaks survive, whether link URLs are written out, whether blank lines collapse. HTML to Text is the straight-through option for when you just want the words and no settings.
No. The markup is parsed into an inert document the browser never renders, so scripts do not execute and no image, stylesheet or tracking pixel it references is requested. Script, style and noscript blocks are then removed outright, so their code never reaches your text.
No. Stripping is one-way: once the tags are gone, the formatting, links and attributes they carried cannot be rebuilt from plain text. Keep your original markup if you will need it later. If you only wanted to see how the page renders, use the HTML Previewer instead.
Usually because the source was built from layout containers rather than real paragraphs, so there are no paragraph boundaries to work from. Untick Collapse repeated blank lines to see the original spacing, or tidy the result afterwards with a find and replace pass.