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Remove all HTML tags from text, leaving only plain text content
Strip HTML tags and extract plain text instantly with our free online HTML tag remover. This tool helps developers and content managers remove all HTML tags from content to get clean text. Simply paste your HTML and get plain text output in real-time.
Remove all HTML tags from your content, leaving only the plain text. This is useful for extracting readable content from HTML documents or cleaning up formatted text.
HTML strip tags removes all HTML/XML tags from text, leaving only the plain text content. Essential for content extraction, data sanitization, text analysis, and converting rich content to plain text for processing.
Parse the HTML using regex or DOM parser, identify all tag elements (<...>), and remove them while preserving text content between tags. Handle special cases like script/style content, comments, and entities.
Simple regex: /<[^>]*>/g removes tags but may fail on edge cases. DOM parsing (DOMParser) is more robust. Also consider: decoding entities (& → &), removing script/style content entirely, handling CDATA, preserving meaningful whitespace.
Extract readable text from web pages.
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Remove HTML before database storage or display.
// Simple regex (may fail on edge cases)
function stripTagsSimple(html) {
return html.replace(/<[^>]*>/g, '');
}
// DOM-based (more robust)
function stripTagsDOM(html) {
const doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(html, 'text/html');
return doc.body.textContent || '';
}
// With script/style removal
function stripTagsFull(html) {
// Remove script and style contents
let text = html.replace(/<script[^>]*>[\s\S]*?<\/script>/gi, '');
text = text.replace(/<style[^>]*>[\s\S]*?<\/style>/gi, '');
// Parse remaining HTML
const doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(text, 'text/html');
return doc.body.textContent || '';
}
// Decode entities
function decodeEntities(text) {
const textarea = document.createElement('textarea');
textarea.innerHTML = text;
return textarea.value;
}
// Complete solution
function extractText(html) {
const stripped = stripTagsFull(html);
return decodeEntities(stripped).trim();
}Multiple approaches from simple regex to full DOM parsing. DOM method handles edge cases better.
Use HTML strip tags when extracting plain text from HTML content for search indexing, content processing, or data extraction.
Depends on implementation. Full stripping should decode & to &, < to <, etc. Some tools leave entities as-is. Check if entity decoding is needed.