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🧹 Strip HTML Tags
Paste HTML and get plain text — all tags removed. Useful for extracting article text, sanitizing user input, or preparing content for plain-text channels. Optionally preserves line breaks at block boundaries.
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Examples
Article extract
Input
<p>Hello <strong>world</strong></p>Output
Hello worldPreserve line breaks
Input
<div>line 1</div><div>line 2</div>Output
line 1\nline 2Frequently asked questions
Will it decode entities like &?
Yes — & becomes &, < becomes <, etc. Numeric entities (©) are also decoded.
Will it strip scripts and styles?
Yes — everything inside <script> and <style> tags is removed entirely (not just the tags).
Is this safe for sanitizing user input?
For display purposes yes, but for security-critical sanitization use a dedicated library like DOMPurify which handles edge cases like onclick attributes.
About this tool
Strip HTML Tags runs entirely in your browser using standard Web APIs. No data is sent to any server. The source for this tool is in our public GitHub repository.
Related tools
- 🔡 HTML Entities Encoder — Encode/decode HTML entities like & < > " and named entities.
- 📐 Markdown Preview — Live preview Markdown as HTML. Side-by-side editor.
- 🔄 Find & Replace — Search and replace text. Optional case sensitivity, whole word, or regex.
Why this tool
vs typical free web-tool sites
| 1vw | Typical free site | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Signup required | No | Often (for premium features) |
| Ads inside the tool | No | Yes (banner + video) |
| Data sent to server | No (browser-only) | Yes (inputs analyzed for ads) |
| Total tools | 96 | Often <20 or scattered across sites |
| Bookmarkable URL per tool | Yes | Mixed |
| Loads in under 1s | Yes (static) | Often slow (ad tracking) |
| Multilingual | EN / ES / PT / FR / DE | Usually EN only |
| Open source | Yes | No |