--- title: "HTML Tag Stripper" description: "Remove every HTML tag from pasted markup and keep the text. Block tags become line breaks, and common entities are decoded. Runs in your browser, no signup." url: https://findutils.com/text/html-stripper/ category: text --- # HTML Tag Stripper Remove every HTML tag from pasted markup and keep the text. Block tags become line breaks, and common entities are decoded. Runs in your browser, no signup. **Use this tool:** [HTML Tag Stripper](https://findutils.com/text/html-stripper/) ## Programmatic access - REST id `html-strip`: POST https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/html-strip/execute (reference: https://findutils.com/api/html-strip/) - MCP tool `html_strip` on https://mcp.findutils.com (reference: https://findutils.com/mcp/html-strip/) ## Why use an HTML tag stripper? Text that arrives as HTML is hard to read and harder to reuse: an email export, a CMS field, a scraped page, or a rich-text editor's clipboard all wrap the words in tags. The HTML Tag Stripper removes every tag in one pass, turns block elements such as paragraphs and list items into line breaks so the structure survives as lines, and decodes the common entities so & becomes an ampersand again. Paste the result into a plain-text field, a search index, a spreadsheet cell, or a prompt with no markup in the way. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What does the tool keep, and what does it remove? It keeps the text. It removes every tag, including script and style tags, and the attributes inside them. A paragraph, heading, list item, table row, block quote, div, or line break tag becomes a new line, so a list stays one item per line. Inline tags such as bold, italic, span, and link are dropped and their text stays where it was. ### Which HTML entities are decoded? The six common ones: &amp;, &lt;, &gt;, &quot;, &#39;, and &nbsp;. Numeric entities for other characters, such as accented letters or symbols, are left as they are. Paste the result into the HTML Entity Decoder if you need the full set. ### Does it keep link URLs? No. A link becomes its visible text and the URL is removed with the tag. Use the HTML to Markdown converter when you want to keep links, headings, and lists in a readable form. ### What happens to script and style blocks? The tags are removed, but the code between them is text to the stripper and stays in the output. Delete those blocks before pasting when the page carries inline scripts or styles. ### Why does the output have extra blank lines? Each block tag adds a line break, and nested blocks add more than one. The tool collapses runs of three or more line breaks to a single blank line. Run the Whitespace Cleaner with Remove blank lines on when you want no blank lines at all. ### Does the HTML Tag Stripper require a signup? No. It is available with no signup and no usage limits. The stripping runs in your browser, so the HTML you paste is not uploaded to a server. ### Can I run the same conversion from a script or an AI client? Yes. The same function powers the REST tool html-strip at api.findutils.com and the MCP tool html_strip at mcp.findutils.com. It takes one argument, html, and returns the plain text. ### Is there a size limit? The page has no fixed limit; your browser's memory is the ceiling. The REST and MCP surfaces cap one request at 1 MB. ### Is this the same as the HTML to Markdown converter? No. HTML to Markdown keeps the structure as Markdown: headings become # lines, lists keep their bullets, links keep their URLs. The stripper keeps only the words and the line breaks. Choose the stripper for a search index, a form field, or a word count, and the converter for documentation. ### Does it handle malformed HTML? Yes. The tool does not build a document tree. It removes anything that looks like a tag, from a < to the next >, so unclosed and mismatched tags do not stop it. A lone < in the text that is not a tag is removed up to the next >, so escape it as &lt; first. ## Related Tools - [HTML to Markdown](https://findutils.com/convert/html-to-markdown/) - [Whitespace Cleaner](https://findutils.com/text/whitespace-cleaner/) - [Text Find & Replace](https://findutils.com/text/text-find-replace/) - [HTML Entity Finder](https://findutils.com/developers/html-entity-finder/) - [Markdown Previewer](https://findutils.com/developers/markdown-previewer/) - [Word Counter](https://findutils.com/text/word-counter/) - [Character Counter](https://findutils.com/text/character-counter/) - [Case Converter](https://findutils.com/text/case-converter/)