HTML Tag Stripper

The HTML Tag Stripper is a straightforward utility that removes all HTML markup from a given input and returns only the raw text content. Whether you are dealing with a full HTML document, a snippet of template code, or a string fetched from an API, this tool parses every tag — opening, closing, and self-closing — and outputs the human-readable text that remains. It handles common entities and nested structures gracefully, saving you from writing one-off regex patterns that inevitably miss edge cases.

For developers, clean text extraction is a recurring need that shows up in more places than expected: scraping pipelines, search indexing, content migration scripts, email template previews, and accessibility audits all require working with text that is free of markup. Having a reliable, instant tool to verify what your stripped output looks like before committing it to code or a data pipeline is a genuine productivity boost.

Using the tool is simple: paste your HTML into the input field — anything from a single <p> tag to a full page of markup — and the stripped plain text appears in the output panel immediately. There is no need to click a button; the result updates in real time as you type or paste. You can then copy the output with a single click and use it wherever plain text is required.

The stripper removes all tags regardless of nesting depth, including <script>, <style>, and <svg> blocks whose inner content you typically do not want in a plain-text result. Standard HTML entities such as &, <,  , and numeric references are decoded into their corresponding characters so the output reads naturally rather than containing raw entity codes.

A few edge cases are worth keeping in mind. Inline elements like <span> and <a> are stripped without adding whitespace, so adjacent words from different inline tags will be joined correctly. Block-level elements such as <p>, <div>, and <li> produce line breaks in the output to preserve the logical structure of the content. Malformed or unclosed tags are handled tolerantly — the parser will still extract whatever readable text it can find rather than failing silently or throwing an error.