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Strip Markdown

Remove Markdown formatting to get clean, plain text.

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Strip Markdown works straight from this page — free, instant, nothing to install. You will find it under Transform & clean, with Markdown blockquote generator and Markdown checklist generator for the neighbouring cases.

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 Markdown?

Remove Markdown formatting to get clean, plain text.

When would I actually use this?

Cleaning up a paste before it goes anywhere: stripping duplicates from a list, normalising case, removing accents for a filename, or sorting lines.

What is the most common mistake?

Sorting text as if it were ASCII. Accented letters land after Z in a byte sort, which puts "Zurich" before "Émile" and produces a list no reader will accept.

How is Strip Markdown different from Markdown blockquote generator?

They sit next to each other but answer different questions: Markdown blockquote generator is the one to open when you need it to prefix every line with '> ' to turn text into a Markdown blockquote. Pick whichever matches what you're starting from — both are free.

Where do the figures come from?

Transformations use the browser's Unicode-aware string handling, so case changes and sorting respect the locale rather than byte order. Nothing is truncated: what comes out is the whole of what went in.

Further reading

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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.GuideMarkdown Task Lists and What Actually Renders WhereTask lists are not in CommonMark. They are a GitHub Flavored Markdown extension, which is why the same file shows checkboxes in one place and literal brackets in another. The exact marker rule, what nesting does, and a table of what is CommonMark, what is GFM and what is neither — checked against both specs and four renderers.How-toNumbering the Lines of a Text for a Review with Several PeopleNumbering starts at 1 and cannot be set to 0, the alignment is spaces rather than zeros, and the remover undoes eight of the eleven separators without touching the indentation. What it still cannot do is tell your numbers from its own.ExplainerSentence Case and Title Case: The Rules Differ by LanguageEnglish title case has three different cutoffs depending on the style guide. French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian have none at all. German capitalises every noun. The tool knows about none of this — here is exactly what it does.ExplainerRemoving Accents Breaks Search — Until You Do It on Both SidesFolding diacritics is a normalisation step, and normalisation only works when the same function runs on the index and on the query. NFC against NFD with the code points shown, and the letters — ø, ł, ß, œ, ı — that survive the strip untouched.ExplainerSorting Text Is Not One Operation: Four Orderings That All Call Themselves AlphabeticalCode-unit order, natural order and locale collation run on the same list in Node, with the outputs printed. Why Zebra beats apple, why item10 beats item9, and why ä sits next to a in German but after z in Swedish.