HTML Tags Remover

About HTML tags remover

The HTML tags remover extracts readable text from markup. It parses the input into an inert document, discards script and style content, decodes entities and returns only the text. Three checkboxes control whether line breaks, link addresses and image references survive, which makes it useful for turning web content into plain notes.

How to use it

1. Paste your markup into the HTML Content box.
2. Set the checkboxes: Preserve line breaks (checked by default), Preserve links and Preserve images.
3. Click Remove HTML Tags. If the box is empty you get an error notice instead.
4. Copy the text from the Result box, or press Clear to reset both boxes.

Preserve links and Preserve images both ticked

<div><p>Hello <b>world</b></p><p>See <a href="https://example.com">docs</a><br>Next<img src="a.png" alt="logo"></p><script>alert(1)</script></div>

Hello world
See docs (https://example.com)
Next[logo: a.png]

When to use it

• Converting a copied web article or HTML email into plain text for a notes app.
• Producing a text-only version of a newsletter to accompany the HTML one.
• Cleaning a CMS export column so it can be counted, searched or imported into a spreadsheet.
• Pulling the visible text out of a snippet to check its word count.

Questions about HTML tags remover

What does Preserve line breaks do?

It turns br tags and the closing tags of block elements such as p, div, li and headings into newlines, so paragraphs stay separate. Without it, text from adjacent blocks runs together.

How are links and images written when preserved?

A link becomes its text followed by the address in parentheses. An image becomes its alt text and source inside square brackets, and it is labeled image when there is no alt attribute.

What happens to script and style content?

It is dropped completely rather than kept as text. The sanitizing parser removes those elements together with their contents, so code and CSS never appear in the output.

Why did part of my sentence disappear?

Text such as a less-than sign followed by a letter looks like the start of a tag to the parser, so a phrase like a angle-bracket b and c can be swallowed. Write it as an entity in the source.

Are entities such as amp turned back into characters?

Yes. The result is the document's text content, so escaped characters come out as the symbols they represent, for example a less-than entity becoming the plain character.

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