What exactly gets removed?

All HTML tags, plus the contents of and blocks and HTML comments. What remains is the visible text content.

Are HTML entities like & decoded?

Yes, with entity decoding on (the default), & becomes &, < becomes <, and so on.

Is it safe to paste untrusted HTML?

Yes. The HTML is parsed with the browser's DOM parser in a way that never executes scripts, nothing runs, nothing is fetched.

Is my HTML uploaded anywhere?

No. Everything happens locally in your browser.

Strip HTML Tags

Remove HTML tags and get clean plain text instantly.

Paste your HTML

Keep line breaks (block tags → new lines)Decode HTML entities (& < >…)

Plain text

Tags are parsed with your browser's DOM engine, no risky regular expressions. Everything runs locally; nothing is sent or stored anywhere.

About this tool

Copying text from a webpage or an HTML email often drags along invisible markup. This free tool strips every HTML tag and returns clean, readable plain text, scripts, styles, and comments are removed too, so what you get is exactly what a reader would see.

Entity decoding turns & < > back into normal characters, and the whitespace option collapses the extra blank lines that block-level tags leave behind. The result is tidy text ready for pasting into documents, spreadsheets, or plain-text editors.

How to use the strip html tags

1Paste your HTML into the input box.
2Tags are stripped instantly, scripts, styles, and comments removed too.
3Toggle entity decoding and whitespace collapsing to refine the output.
4Click Copy to copy the clean plain text.

Good to know

Parsing uses the browser's own DOM engine without executing anything, so even untrusted HTML is safe to paste. And like every JoliTools utility, nothing leaves your device.