HTML Tag Remover
Fast, accurate, and free online HTML Tag Remover tool that runs directly in your browser.
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Removing HTML tags (HTML stripping) transforms HTML code into plain text - useful when processing web content, CMS migrations, preparing text for NLP analysis or data cleaning. The tool removes tags, optionally decodes HTML entities (& → &, → space) and normalizes whitespace.
How HTML tag removal works
Algorithm: Find and remove everything between < and > (regex or DOM parser). Regex (simple): /<[^>]+>/g. DOM parser (safe): create element, assign innerHTML, read textContent. Regex problems: CDATA, HTML comments, nested quotes in attributes. For production: always a DOM parser or a dedicated library (DOMPurify, Sanitize.js).
HTML entities to decode
& → &. < → <. > → >. " → ". ' → '. → non-breaking space (U+00A0). © → ©. € → €. Numeric: © → © (decimal). © → © (hex). The tool decodes entities after removing tags, returning naturally readable text.
Applications of
NLP and text analysis: models require plain text without HTML. Web scraping: BeautifulSoup .get_text(). Content migration: Drupal/WordPress export → clean HTML. Version comparison: diff two pages without tag noise. Full-text search: Elasticsearch indexes plain text. Email marketing: converting HTML email to plain text fallback.
Preserving structure when deleting
Problem:
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
→ "Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2" (no spaces). Solution: replace,with \n before removing tags.
FAQ
How to remove HTML tags in PHP?
strip_tags($html): removes HTML tags, optionally keeps selected ones. strip_tags($html, '
') will keep p and br. html_entity_decode() after strip_tags() to decode entities. For safety: htmlspecialchars() for display, DOMDocument for parsing. Don't use regex for HTML validation in PHP - too many edge cases.
How to remove HTML tags in Python?
BeautifulSoup: soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser"); soup.get_text(). lxml: lxml.html.fromstring(html).text_content(). Regex (careful): import re; re.sub("<[^>]+>", "", html). Markdownify: Convert HTML to Markdown (preserves structure). html2text: HTML to plain text with formatting preserved.
How to remove HTML tags in JavaScript?
DOM: document.createElement("div"); el.innerHTML = html; return el.textContent. DOMParser: new DOMParser().parseFromString(html, "text/html").body.textContent. Regex: html.replace(/<[^>]*>/g, ""). Striptags (npm): secure library. Sanitize-html (npm): removes unsafe tags, keeps selected ones.
Is it safe to remove HTML tags?
Risk:after removing tags = "alert(xss)" – text, not code. But: if the result goes back to HTML without escaping = XSS. Safe practice: strip tags → encode result (htmlspecialchars) before displaying in HTML. Don't trust the output as secure HTML.
How to preserve formatting when converting HTML to email?
HTML email → plain text fallback: replace
with \n,
with \n\n,textwith *text*,textwith "text (URL)". Libraries: Mailchecker, html-to-text (npm), premailer (Ruby). Plain text email: Multipart/alternative MIME version required by Email on Acid and Litmus.
Related tools: HTML formatting, HTML entity encoder and HTML to Markdown converter.