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Remove HTML Tags

Strip every HTML tag from your text, keeping only the textual content. Browser-only.

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About Remove HTML Tags

The HTML tag remover strips every <tag> and </tag> from your input, leaving only the textual content. It's a quick way to convert an HTML blob into plain text for indexing, search, or pasting into a context that doesn't accept markup.

When to use it

  • Producing plain text from an HTML email or snippet
  • Indexing or searching content where HTML noise hurts results
  • Pasting webpage content into a text-only field
  • Stripping markup before doing a word count

How it works

The regex /<[^>]*>/g matches anything between angle brackets and removes it. HTML entities (&amp;, &lt;, etc.) are passed through unchanged — combine with the HTML entity decoder if you want them resolved too.

Examples

<p>Hello <strong>world</strong>!</p>
Hello world!

Frequently asked questions

Are HTML entities decoded?
No — &amp; stays as &amp;, &nbsp; stays as &nbsp;. Use the HTML entity decoder afterward for a full plain-text conversion.
What about <script> and <style> contents?
Their tags are removed but the content between them is kept — meaning JavaScript or CSS source could end up in the output. For 'real' HTML-to-text conversion, use the HTML → Markdown tool or pre-process by removing those blocks first.
Is the output safe to display as-is?
Yes — once tags are stripped, the result is plain text with no executable markup.

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