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Strip HTML

Remove HTML elements, active content, and markup while retaining readable browser-decoded text.

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PRIVATE BROWSER WORKSPACE

Strip HTML

Input is processed locally in this browser tab and is not sent to NexaCurrent.

VISIBLE RESULT

Review the output

Run the tool to display a result. Nothing is copied or downloaded silently.

Method
Remove HTML elements, active content, and markup while retaining readable browser-decoded text.
Privacy
The entered text and visible result stay in this browser tab. Reset clears both.
Limit
Text is limited to 2,000,000 characters to keep the page responsive.

METHOD & CONTEXT

How Strip HTML Tags can help

Use this tool to remove HTML markup and keep the words a reader can see. It is useful for cleaning copied website content, preparing a plain-text note, comparing visible wording, or removing tags before pasting text into a system that does not accept HTML.

A heading, two paragraphs, and a bulleted list become readable lines rather than one run-on block. Script, style, embedded frame, SVG, MathML, template, object, and metadata elements are discarded, so their code or hidden fallback text does not appear in the result.

How the conversion works

The browser reads the input as an inactive HTML document. The converter walks visible text nodes, adds sensible breaks around headings, paragraphs, table cells, and list items, and optionally appends ordinary link destinations. It never displays the submitted markup as a live web page.

Readable mode preserves useful paragraph and list boundaries and marks list items with bullets. Compact mode collapses whitespace into a single flow of text. Choose readable output for documents and compact output for search indexes, short previews, or one-line comparisons.

How to use the Strip HTML Tags

Paste or type a small representative example, choose the available output mode, and run the tool. Read the visible result before copying or downloading it. Reset returns the controls to the example state and clears the current output, which is useful before starting a different task.

Copy the cleaned text for immediate use or download stripped-html.txt. If you need link destinations and document spacing, try HTML to Plain Text in readable mode. If you need Markdown rather than plain text, use the separate HTML to Markdown converter.

What to check in the result

Review the result for words that depended on images, CSS-generated content, form values, or interactive controls; those are not ordinary text nodes and may not survive. Also check links when their destination matters, because visible anchor text can differ from the address it points to.

If the result is empty or surprising, start by checking the first visible error, the selected mode, and whether the source uses the syntax this page accepts. Try a smaller known example before returning to important input; this separates a format problem from a misunderstanding about the expected output.

Privacy and important limits

Your input and result remain in the current browser tab. They are not sent to NexaCurrent, added to the page address, saved to an account, or reused after you reset or leave the page. Avoid pasting passwords, private keys, access tokens, or personal records into any convenience tool when a smaller non-sensitive example can answer the same question.

Removing tags is not the same as summarizing, translating, or proving that copied content is safe or accurate. Text loaded later by JavaScript is absent unless it was included in the pasted HTML. Complex visual tables and columns may lose their original reading order.

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