Pasting content from web pages, emails, or CMS editors often brings messy HTML: tags, inline styles, scripts, and encoded entities like and –. Whether you're preparing text for publishing, cleaning data for NLP, or sharing a readable excerpt, you frequently need to extract plain text and decode entities. The Strip HTML Tags & Decode Entities tool removes unwanted HTML while giving you control: preserve specific tags, remove scripts/styles, convert break tags to newlines, and decode both named and numeric entities — all locally in your browser for privacy and speed.
1. Clean CMS paste: Copying content from Google Docs or Word into a CMS often includes hidden tags and inline styles. Stripping tags and decoding entities yields clean text ready for editing or publishing.
2. Prepare text for NLP: Natural language processing pipelines benefit from plain text without HTML noise. Remove tags and decode entities before tokenization and stopword removal to prevent malformed tokens.
3. Extract readable snippets: When you want to share a quote or paragraph without markup, converting <br> and <p> to newlines preserves readability while removing presentation markup.
4. Data anonymization & redaction prep: Stripping out scripts and tags reduces complexity before redacting or pseudonymizing data fields in exported content.
The tool performs three main steps in order: (1) optionally remove <script> and <style> blocks to avoid keeping executable or stylistic content, (2) decode HTML entities using the browser DOM for robust decoding of named and numeric entities, and (3) remove remaining tags while offering optional masking for tags you want to preserve (for example, keep <strong> or <a> tags). Converting line-break tags to real newlines improves readability when you need plain paragraphs.
strong,em,a. The tool temporarily masks those tags, strips everything else, then restores the preserved tags.The tool relies on heuristics and browser decoding; it handles the vast majority of common HTML fragments and entities. However, extremely malformed HTML or intentionally obfuscated markup may produce imperfect results. Preserving complex nested tags or reconstructing original markup structure (attributes, inline event handlers) is outside this tool’s scope — it focuses on readable text extraction. For full HTML parsing and transformations, use a server-side parser or editor (e.g., BeautifulSoup, Cheerio, htmlparser2) as part of a development workflow.
Example 1: Pasted email HTML with inline styles — enable "Remove <script>/<style>" and "Convert <br> to newlines" to get a plain readable email body.
Example 2: Blog content with emphasis — add strong,em to Preserve tags so that bold/italic remains while removing other markup.
Processing is done locally in your browser: nothing is uploaded to servers. This is ideal for cleaning sensitive content. The tool is fast for regular content sizes (articles, emails, CMS fragments). Very large HTML dumps (megabytes) may be slower depending on device resources; in those cases consider server-side preprocessing.
Whether you're preparing content for publication, cleaning data for analysis, or extracting readable excerpts, this tool makes it easy to strip HTML and decode entities safely and privately. Paste your HTML, tweak the options, preview, and extract clean text in seconds.
If "Remove <script>/<style>" is enabled, script and style blocks are removed. Inline attributes remain only for preserved tags if you choose to preserve them; otherwise tags and attributes are stripped.
Yes — the tool decodes named and numeric entities using the browser's HTML parser, falling back to common-entity replacements if necessary.
Yes — add a to the preserve list. The tag will be restored in the output; note attributes (href) are preserved only as the original markup — the tool focuses on content extraction.
If "Convert <br>/<p> to newlines" is enabled, paragraph and break tags are converted to newline characters for readable output.
Yes — everything runs locally in your browser; we do not send your text to any server.
Yes — the Undo button restores the previous output state during your session.
Yes — comments are treated as tags and removed during stripping unless preserved via masking (which is uncommon).
Accuracy is high for common named and numeric entities since decoding uses the browser DOM. Very rare or nonstandard entities may be left as-is.
The tool decodes and preserves whitespace; preformatted blocks (<pre>) will be stripped by default — if you need to preserve them, avoid removing that tag by listing it in the preserve list.
Yes — list tags like strong,em in the preserve field to keep them.
The tool does its best with malformed HTML, but results may vary. For robust parsing of broken HTML, use a dedicated parser on the server side.
Yes — hidden elements are tags and will be removed unless preserved. Tracking pixels embedded as <img> tags will be stripped unless you preserve img tags.
Yes — Strip HTML Tags & Decode Entities is free and requires no registration.
It handles typical fragments and article-size HTML. Extremely large files (multi-MB) may be slower and are better processed with server-side tools.
Yes — use the Download (.txt) button to save the cleaned output to your device.