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Strip HTML tags

Remove all HTML tags from a snippet and keep just the plain text.

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Strip HTML tags works straight from this page — free, instant, nothing to install. Its place is under Web & network; Strip ANSI color codes and HTML list generator answer the questions closest to this one.

How to use it

  1. Open the tool — no signup or install needed.
  2. Enter your input or adjust the available options.
  3. Get your result instantly, then copy or download it.

Frequently asked questions

What is Strip HTML tags?

Remove all HTML tags from a snippet and keep just the plain text.

When would I actually use this?

Getting usable data out of something that was never meant to be parsed: pulling every address out of a pasted thread, turning a column of lines into a JSON array or an SQL IN clause, renaming a hundred identifiers from snake_case to camelCase in one pass.

What is the most common mistake?

Trusting an extraction to be exhaustive. A pattern that catches every address in the sample will still miss the one wrapped across a line break, the one written with a display name, and the one an email client turned into a link — count what came out against what you expected before you use the list.

How is Strip HTML tags different from Strip ANSI color codes?

They sit next to each other but answer different questions: Strip ANSI color codes is the one to open when you need it to remove terminal ANSI escape sequences to get clean, readable log text. Paste the text or drop the file; nothing leaves the page either way. Pick whichever matches what you're starting from — both are free.

Is there a tool for the next step?

HTML list generator is the closest one after this: Turn a list of lines into an HTML unordered or ordered list.

What else is worth having open alongside it?

HTML to JSX converter and Text to HTML table — they come up in the same task often enough to be worth a second tab.

Where do the figures come from?

Extraction runs on patterns, not on a parser: it recognises the common shapes of an address, a URL or an IP rather than validating them against their specification. That is the right trade for a paste, and the wrong one for input you are about to store.

Further reading

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GuideStripping HTML Safely: What a Tag Remover Can and Cannot DoRemoving tags and sanitising HTML are two different jobs. One real fragment run through a naive regex and through a formatting-aware stripper, with script and style contents, block breaks, comments, CDATA and entity order all shown as output.How-toCleaning Messy Text: The Order of Operations That Actually MattersStrip tags before decoding entities, trim before deduplicating, collapse whitespace last. Three orderings run in Node, a nine-step pipeline in the right sequence, and the invisible characters — U+00A0, U+200B, U+FEFF — that survive every naive cleanup.GuideStripping Markdown: What Plain Text Loses, and What a Regex Gets WrongA link becomes text with its destination deleted, a nested list loses its hierarchy, a table becomes a row of words. Then the technical half: markdown has no single spec, and a regex stripper mangles a filename, a multiplication sign and the inside of a code block — all shown against a real parser.GuideBuilding a URL With Parameters That Survives a Copy-PasteThree encodings, one visible difference: %20 or +. The builder's form mode matches URLSearchParams byte for byte on seventeen values — but give it a base URL with a fragment and every parameter lands inside the hash, where no server sees it.GuideBeautify or Minify: What Each Is For, and What It Does to the WeightFour real stylesheets run through the minifier, measured raw and after gzip. Stripping every space saved 48, 103, 104 and 147 compressed bytes; stripping comments saved 57, 1 358, 2 420 and 1 042. Plus the five inputs this minifier breaks.GuideWhat a Minifier Can Remove, and What It Must NotMinification has to preserve meaning, and the interesting part is the whitespace that carries meaning: the descendant combinator, the spaces inside calc(), the gap between two inline elements. Measured here on real files, including how much brotli was going to save you anyway.