Remove HTML Tags

What Is Remove HTML Tags?

Remove HTML Tags is a free online text-cleaning tool that strips HTML markup from supplied content and produces plain text. It is useful when you have HTML source, copied website content or formatted text that needs to be converted into a simpler text-only format.

The tool removes HTML elements and their attributes while retaining the readable text contained within them. It can be useful for preparing content for plain-text documents, data processing, text analysis, emails, scripts and other situations where HTML formatting is unnecessary.

Why Use Remove HTML Tags?

Removing HTML markup manually can be tedious, particularly when working with long passages containing many elements and attributes. This tool automates the process and provides a clean text result in seconds.

How to Use Remove HTML Tags

Removing HTML markup takes only a few steps. The tool processes the supplied content locally in your browser.

1. Paste your HTML — Enter or paste HTML source or text containing HTML tags into the input box.
2. Choose your options — Decide whether to preserve block-level line breaks, collapse repeated spaces or remove empty lines.
3. Remove the tags — Click Remove HTML Tags to process the content and generate the plain-text result.
4. Copy or download the result — Copy the cleaned text to your clipboard or download it as a .txt file.

Remove HTML Tags from Text Online

HTML, or HyperText Markup Language, uses elements and attributes to structure and format content for web browsers. Tags such as <p>, <strong>, <a> and <div> provide information about how content should be displayed. When HTML source is copied into a plain-text environment, these tags may be unwanted and need to be removed.

This HTML tag remover extracts the text content while stripping away the markup. For example, <strong>Important</strong> becomes Important, while a link such as <a href="https://example.com">Example</a> becomes Example. The URL and HTML attributes are not included in the plain-text result.

What HTML Tags Does the Tool Remove?

The tool is designed to remove HTML elements across common HTML content, including headings, paragraphs, links, emphasis and formatting elements, lists, tables, divisions, spans, images and other markup. HTML attributes such as class, id, style and href are also removed as part of their containing tags.

When Should You Strip HTML from Text?

Removing HTML can be useful when transferring website content into a plain-text system, preparing text for analysis, cleaning scraped content, creating text-only versions of material, simplifying copied source code or removing formatting before further processing. It can also be useful when a destination system accepts text but does not need HTML presentation markup.

How HTML Tag Removal Works

The tool identifies HTML markup and removes the tags while retaining the text content. When the option to preserve block-level line breaks is enabled, common structural elements such as paragraphs, headings and list items are treated as text boundaries so that the result remains readable rather than becoming one continuous block.

Removing HTML tags does not convert HTML entities into their original characters in every possible situation, and it does not reconstruct the visual appearance of a webpage. Content that depends on images, CSS, JavaScript or other browser behaviour may therefore not have an exact plain-text equivalent. Review the result before using it in important documents or data-processing workflows.

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