Remove HTML Tags — Free Online Tool

Last updated: January 2025

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What is Remove HTML Tags?

Remove HTML Tags strips all HTML markup from your text and optionally decodes HTML entities like & → & and < → <.

When to use Remove HTML Tags?

Use it to extract plain text from HTML source code, clean up copied website content, strip formatting from email templates, and process HTML for analysis.

How to use this tool

1Paste your HTML code or HTML-laden text
2Click 'Remove HTML Tags'
3Copy the clean plain text output

Examples

Input	Output
<p>Hello <b>World</b></p>	Hello World
<h1>Title</h1><p>Body text</p>	TitleBody text
Price & Tax: <$100>	Price & Tax: <$100>
<ul><li>Item 1</li><li>Item 2</li></ul>	Item 1Item 2
<script>alert('xss')</script>safe text	safe text

Rules & Behavior

All HTML tags removed using regex pattern <[^>]*>
HTML entities decoded (&, <, >, ", etc.)
Script and style tags removed including their content

Frequently Asked Questions

Does it remove only the tags or the content too?

Tag brackets and tag names are removed, but the text content between tags is kept. So '<b>hello</b>' becomes 'hello'.

Does it decode HTML entities?

Yes, & → &, < → <, > → >, " → ", ' → ', and   → space.

Does it handle nested tags?

Yes, all tags including nested tags are stripped. The plain text content between them is preserved.

Will it remove JavaScript from script tags?

Yes, script and style tag content is removed along with the tags themselves.

Can I use it to preview HTML content?

Partially — it shows the text content, but layout, formatting, and visual hierarchy from CSS are not preserved.