Strip HTML Tags
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How to Use the Strip HTML Tags
Follow these steps to use the strip html tags quickly and get the right result.
Paste Your Text
Paste your HTML content into the input.
Step 2
All HTML tags are stripped and only plain text remains in the output.
Step 3
Optionally preserve line breaks from block elements like <p> and <br>.
Learn when to use the Strip HTML Tags and how to get better results.
Quick guidance, practical use cases, and answers to the most common questions users have about this tool.
About the Strip HTML Tags
Remove all HTML tags from a block of text, leaving only the visible plain text content. Handles nested tags, attributes, and self-closing tags. Useful for extracting readable content from web page source code or rich text editors.
How to Use the Strip HTML Tags
- 1Paste your HTML content into the input.
- 2All HTML tags are stripped and only plain text remains in the output.
- 3Optionally preserve line breaks from block elements like <p> and <br>.
Common Use Cases
- +Extract plain text from a web page's HTML source
- +Clean up rich text editor output before storing in a database
- +Convert HTML emails to plain text
- +Remove markup from copy-pasted web content
Why This Tool Helps
Use it to clean up repetitive text work faster, avoid formatting mistakes, and get a result you can copy straight into your next document, app, or workflow.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does it decode HTML entities like & and <?
Yes — common HTML entities are decoded to their character equivalents in the output.
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