HTML Tag Stripper

Choose readable line breaks or compact text and strip markup without uploading the HTML.

HTML source

Text without tags

Preserve readable line breaks

ReadyRemoves markup from pasted HTML. It does not sanitize HTML for safe reinsertion; the result is plain text.

Source & result review

Inspect what the browser parsed and what the tool produced

DOMParser ≠ sanitizer

Ready to inspect source and result.

Review is local and detached: this panel never inserts pasted markup into the live page. A browser parser can normalize malformed HTML, but successful parsing does not make markup safe to inject. Scripts, inline event attributes and embedded browsing/plugin elements are reported as active-content signals, not executed.

Browser-local does not mean standards-complete

HTML parsing is error tolerant. Source diagnostics, sandboxed previews, and transformations do not replace full conformance, security, or production-browser testing.

Removing tags creates text, not sanitized HTML

The result is plain text with script/style/template content excluded by the native engine. Do not treat tag stripping as a general sanitizer for later HTML injection.

Parser and sanitizer boundary

HTML DOMParser creates a detached document and may repair or normalize markup. That is useful for inspection, but parsing alone does not sanitize untrusted HTML. Review scripts, inline event attributes, embedded content and application-specific URL/context rules before any live-DOM insertion.

Use this result with confidence

Decide whether you need plain text or sanitized HTML

Removing every tag produces text, while sanitizing HTML keeps selected markup and removes unsafe elements or attributes. Those are different jobs. Use a tag stripper when the desired output is text; use a dedicated sanitizer when formatting must remain. Do not treat stripped text as a repaired HTML document.

Browser parsing can change malformed markup

Real-world HTML can contain unclosed tags, comments, entities, scripts, style blocks, and invalid nesting. A browser parser may repair that structure before text extraction. If exact source preservation matters, compare the original bytes with the parsed result and test malformed examples that match the source system.

Choose line-break behavior deliberately

Converting block elements or br tags to line breaks can preserve readability, but it can also create extra blank lines or merge content unexpectedly. Review paragraphs, lists, tables, and nested elements after stripping. For downstream NLP or import work, define the whitespace rule and keep it consistent across files.

Stripping tags is not a security sanitizer

Deleting tags may remove obvious markup, but security decisions require context-aware handling of URLs, attributes, CSS, DOM insertion methods, and encoding. If untrusted content will be rendered again as HTML, use a maintained sanitizer and a safe insertion API instead of relying on a tag-removal step.