Remove HTML Tags Tool

Extract readable text from an HTML snippet

Paste HTML, choose whether common block elements should create line breaks, then select Remove HTML tags. Review the plain-text result before using it in a document, message, or data field.

What gets removed

The browser parses the entered markup in an isolated document. Tags disappear, character references such as & become their displayed characters, and text nodes remain. Script, style, template, and noscript contents are removed rather than copied into the result. Pasted markup is never inserted into the visible page, so it is not run as page content.

Readable-break mode

With readable breaks enabled, line breaks are placed around headings, paragraphs, list items, table rows, block quotes, and several other block-level elements. A <br> also becomes a line break. Repeated blank lines and surrounding whitespace are normalized. Turn the option off when you want all extracted text joined with spaces instead.

Worked example

For <h2>Shopping</h2><ul><li>Apples</li><li>Bread</li></ul>, readable-break mode returns Shopping, Apples, and Bread on separate lines. Flat mode returns “Shopping Apples Bread”. An encoded ampersand becomes an ordinary ampersand in either result.

Plain text is not sanitized HTML

This tool produces text for text-only destinations. It does not make entered HTML safe to insert back into a webpage, rich-text editor, template, email, or application. If a destination expects HTML, use a security-reviewed sanitizer designed for that environment. Removing visible tags alone is not a general security control.

Limitations and privacy

Everything stays in this browser. The tool does not fetch URLs, upload files, keep links, convert to Markdown, preserve columns, reproduce CSS layout, describe images, or infer missing punctuation. Complex tables and deliberately visual layouts can lose meaning. Malformed HTML is repaired according to the browser parser, so its result may differ from a source-code search-and-replace.

Remove HTML Tags FAQ

Will it execute a pasted script?

No. Script content is removed from the isolated parsed document and is never added to the live page.

Why did table columns run together?

Plain text cannot retain full table geometry. Readable breaks separate rows, but you may need to add delimiters manually.

Does it remove HTML entities?

It decodes character references into the characters a browser would display.