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HTML Tag Remover

Strip tags, scripts and styles from pasted markup and keep only the readable text.

Strip HTML tags

Paste markup to strip its tags.
A character by character state machine handles quotes, comments and script blocks safely.

How to use the HTML Tag Remover

  1. Paste the markup you want to strip into the box.
  2. Choose whether scripts, styles and comments should be dropped.
  3. Copy the plain text result with the Copy button.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about the free online html tag remover.

Paste the markup and the tool walks through it character by character, dropping every tag and returning only the readable text.
A character by character state machine understands quoted attributes and raw text blocks, so angle brackets inside attributes do not confuse it.
With the default option their contents are removed completely, so JavaScript code and CSS rules never leak into your plain text result.
A less than sign that is not followed by a tag name, a slash or an exclamation mark is treated as ordinary text and kept.
Yes, when Drop comments is ticked. Otherwise the comment text is kept so you can inspect what the markup was hiding.
Yes. Tick Replace each tag with a space when removed tags would otherwise glue two words together in the output.
No. Entities such as a named ampersand reference are left as they are, so use the entity decoder first if you want real characters.
No. The stripping runs entirely in your browser, so nothing you paste is uploaded or stored on a server.

Last updated: October 10, 2026