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HTML tag remover online

Paste a snippet of HTML code or text copied from a web page with markup, and the tool strips every tag, leaving only readable text. It can optionally decode HTML entities and collapse extra blank lines left where block-level tags used to be.

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Result

Tags removed

This page has no server side at all. The table you paste is parsed by JavaScript inside your own browser, the chart is drawn on a canvas element on your machine, and the export file is assembled locally. Nothing is uploaded, stored or written to any log. You can disconnect from the network after the page has loaded and everything will still work — which is the simplest way to verify the claim yourself.

Facts and limits of this method

Cleanup method A regular expression, not a DOM parse — the HTML is never attached to the page
What counts as a tag Any sequence from "<" to the nearest ">"
Entities decoded &amp; &lt; &gt; &quot; &#39; &apos; &nbsp;
Blank-line collapsing Three or more consecutive line breaks are collapsed to two

When it misleads you

How it is calculated

The tool searches the text for every sequence from a "<" character to the nearest ">" using a regular expression and removes them — this is not a DOM parse, so potentially unsafe HTML (like scripts) is never attached to the page itself.

If entity decoding is on, after tags are removed the remaining text is checked for the seven standard HTML entities, and each one is replaced with its corresponding character.

If blank-line collapsing is on, three or more consecutive line breaks (which typically appear where block-level tags like &lt;div&gt; or &lt;p&gt; used to be) are collapsed to two.

The counter shows how many individual tags were found and removed — not markup elements, but matches of the "<...>" pattern.

Questions and answers

Is it safe to paste someone else's HTML into this field?

Yes, the cleanup doesn't use innerHTML or a DOM parse — the pasted text never becomes executable markup on the page, it's processed purely as a string.

Why is something like &copy; still in the result?

Only a fixed list of the seven most common entities is decoded (&amp;, &lt;, &gt;, &quot;, &#39;, &apos;, &nbsp;). Named and numeric entities outside that list are left as-is.

Are scripts and styles removed entirely?

Only the &lt;script&gt; and &lt;style&gt; tags themselves. The code between them stays in the result as plain text — the tool doesn't recognize the content of those tags as one block to strip.

Is my text sent anywhere?

No, all the processing runs in your browser.

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