HTML Tag Stripper | A free, easy online tool

Your HTML

Preserve line breaks

Plain Text

Remove Spaces Remove Breaks Remove Duplicates Remove Empty Lines Strip HTML Find/Replace Text Reverser Add Line Number Remove Line Numbers

How it Works

Paste any HTML — a copied article, an email source, a snippet from view-source — and the tool returns the plain text underneath. Tags are stripped and HTML entities like & or   are decoded back to their natural characters.

Options

Preserve line breaks: When on, structural tags (<br>, </p>, </div>, </li>, </tr>) are converted to newlines so the text reads naturally. When off, everything collapses onto a single block.

Common Use Cases

Cleaning pasted content: Strip styles and markup when moving text from a CMS to a plain-text field.
Email triage: Pull the body text out of HTML emails for archiving or analysis.
Word count prep: Get an accurate count of the actual text inside an HTML page.
Content audits: Compare what users actually see with what's wrapped in markup.
Importing into tools: Many AI prompts, summarisers, or translators do better with plain text.

Privacy and Security

The HTML is parsed locally in your browser using a detached DOM element — nothing is rendered into the page, no scripts run, and nothing is sent to a server.

Text Formatting Tools

Remove Spaces - Instantly remove spaces from your text, or if you like, only double spaces
Remove Line Breaks - Instantly remove line breaks from the text you type or paste
Remove Duplicate Lines - Instantly remove lines that appear multiple times in a list
Remove Empty Lines - Instantly remove blank lines from any text
Find and Replace - Find and replace text with literal, case-insensitive, or full regex matching. See the live match count.
Text Reverser - Instantly reverse any text online.
Add Line Number - Add line numbers to any text online. Choose from different separator styles like period, colon, or dash.
Remove Line Numbers - Remove line numbers from any text. Automatically detects and removes various numbering formats.