HTML Tag Remover
Remove HTML tags from text with smart formatting preservation. Automatically converts <br> to newlines, <p> to paragraphs, and <li> to bullet points. Decode HTML entities, normalize whitespace, and extract clean plain text from HTML content. Perfect for cleaning web scraped data, email templates, or converting HTML to plain text.
Options
Recommended Settings
Smart Tag Removal Features
- •Automatically converts <br> and <br/> tags to newlines for better readability
- •Transforms <p> and <div> closing tags to paragraph breaks (double newlines)
- •Converts <li> list items to bullet points (•) for plain text formatting
- •Preserves link text with optional URL display in [brackets] format
- •Removes <script> and <style> tags completely including their content
Best Practices for Tag Removal
- •Enable 'Decode HTML Entities' to convert ©, ™, etc. to actual symbols
- •Use 'Normalize Whitespace' to clean up extra spaces and reduce multiple blank lines
- •Enable 'Preserve Links' when you need to keep track of URL references in plain text
- •Disable 'Convert Lists' if you want to remove bullet formatting and keep continuous text
- •Perfect for web scraping, email parsing, or extracting content from HTML documents
Pro Tips
- •Processing happens automatically in real-time as you type or change settings
- •The tool intelligently preserves text structure by converting formatting tags to whitespace
- •Scripts and styles are completely removed to avoid code injection in plain text
- •Statistics show tags removed, character count changes, and size reduction percentage
Most Popular
All options enabled for maximum text cleaning and readability
When to Use This Tool
Extract clean text content from scraped HTML pages. Remove all markup while preserving the actual content, making it perfect for data analysis, text mining, or content aggregation. The smart formatting ensures paragraphs, headings, and lists remain readable in plain text format.
Convert HTML emails to plain text format for email clients that don't support HTML. The tool preserves link URLs, converts formatting to plain text equivalents, and ensures the message remains readable without HTML rendering. Essential for creating multi-part email messages.
Clean HTML content when migrating between CMS platforms or importing data into systems that only accept plain text. Remove formatting while keeping the content structure intact, decode special characters, and normalize whitespace for consistent import results.
Prepare HTML documents for natural language processing, sentiment analysis, or text search. Strip away all markup to focus on the actual content, decode entities to get real characters, and clean whitespace for more accurate text analysis and processing.
How It Works
Paste your HTML content into the input field on the left
Configure options: Enable/disable entity decoding, whitespace normalization, link preservation, and list conversion
The tool automatically processes your HTML in real-time with smart tag removal:
• Converts <br> to newlines, <p>/<div> to paragraph breaks, <li> to bullet points
• Removes <script> and <style> tags completely with their content
• Decodes HTML entities like © to © if enabled
Review the cleaned plain text output on the right with character count and statistics
Copy the result to clipboard or download it as a .txt file
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does 'smart removal' mean?
Smart removal means the tool doesn't just strip tags blindly—it intelligently converts HTML formatting to plain text equivalents. <br> becomes newlines, <p> creates paragraph breaks, <li> becomes bullet points (•), and <h1>-<h6> get extra spacing. This preserves the document's structure and readability even after removing all HTML markup.
Will this remove JavaScript and CSS?
Yes! The tool completely removes <script> and <style> tags along with their entire content. This prevents code injection and ensures you get only the text content from the HTML. This is especially important when processing untrusted HTML from web scraping or user-submitted content.
What's the difference between this and just using regex to remove tags?
A simple regex like /<[^>]+>/g removes all tags but leaves you with poorly formatted text. This tool goes further by: converting <br> to actual newlines, creating paragraph breaks from <p> tags, converting lists to bullets, removing scripts/styles completely, decoding HTML entities, and normalizing whitespace. The result is readable, well-structured plain text.
Should I enable 'Preserve Link URLs'?
Enable this option if you need to keep track of where links point. With it enabled, <a href='https://example.com'>Click here</a> becomes 'Click here [https://example.com]' instead of just 'Click here'. This is useful for documentation, archiving, or when link destinations are important context.
What HTML entities does the decoder support?
The decoder supports 60+ common HTML entities including: basic entities (&, <, >), typography (—, –, quotes), symbols (©, ®, ™), currency (€, £, ¥), and mathematical operators. It also decodes numeric entities like © (decimal) and © (hexadecimal).
Why is my output size smaller than the input?
HTML tags, attributes, and encoded entities take up space. When removed, the content shrinks significantly. For example, '<p class="text">Hello © 2024</p>' (41 chars) becomes 'Hello © 2024' (13 chars)—a 68% reduction. The statistics card shows how many tags were removed and the size reduction percentage.