HTML Cleaner – Strip HTML Tags Online
Paste HTML markup and get clean plain text in one click. Strips every tag, decodes entities like   and &, and removes leftover script and style blocks.
About this tool
HTML Cleaner – Strip HTML Tags Online, Free SnapTextClean's HTML cleaner removes every HTML and XML tag from any block of markup you paste and returns clean, readable plain text. Paste raw page source, a copied HTML email, or a chunk of exported CMS content — the tool strips <div>, <p>, <span>, inline styles, class attributes, and even entire <script> and <style> blocks, then decodes HTML entities so you're left with the actual words. Everything runs in your browser. Your HTML never touches a server, which matters when you're cleaning private page source, client work, or internal email content. ### Why Manual "Find and Replace" Isn't Enough The common approach — paste into Word, use Find & Replace with a regex like `<[^>]*>` — misses three things every real HTML block contains: 1. **Entities**: ` ` stays as literal text, so your output is full of " " strings. 2. **Script/style content**: Regex tag-stripping leaves the actual JavaScript and CSS code behind. 3. **Whitespace collapse**: You end up with 40 consecutive blank lines where the markup used to be. A dedicated HTML cleaner handles all three. That's why "strip HTML tags online" is one of the most common daily searches for developers, marketers, and data-entry teams. ### HTML Cleaner vs Plain Text Converter vs Text Cleaner Confusingly, several closely related tools all get called by different names. Here's the difference on SnapTextClean: - **HTML cleaner** (this page): input is HTML markup, output is plain text with tags removed. - **[Text cleaner](/text-cleaner-online)**: input is text that already has *invisible* junk (smart quotes, non-breaking spaces, zero-width characters), output is normalized plain text. - **[Plain text converter](/plain-text-converter)**: same engine, tuned for Word/Docs/PDF where the input is styled prose rather than markup. If the input contains `<` and `>` tags, this HTML cleaner is the right tool. ### Privacy and Speed Nothing is uploaded. There's no signup, no daily limit, no ads. Cleaning a 50KB HTML page takes a few milliseconds — cleaning an entire scraped webpage takes about the same. Because processing happens locally in your browser, you can use SnapTextClean for confidential content (internal documentation, client work, unreleased marketing copy) without worrying about where the data goes. For more on the safe-copy-paste workflow between HTML sources and plain-text destinations, see the [guide to pasting without formatting](/guides/copy-paste-web-text).
Frequently asked questions
What does an HTML cleaner do?
An HTML cleaner strips all HTML and XML tags from a block of text and returns plain, readable content. It removes markup like <p>, <div>, <span>, inline styles, class attributes, and script/style blocks — leaving only the words you actually want.
Is this the same as an HTML stripper or HTML tag remover?
Yes. 'HTML cleaner', 'HTML stripper', 'HTML tag remover', and 'strip HTML tags online' all describe the same job — removing the markup and keeping the text. SnapTextClean does this in one click and also cleans up the leftover whitespace, invisible characters, and smart quotes that usually come along for the ride.
Does it decode HTML entities like & and ?
Yes. Common entities like &, <, >, ", ', and are converted back into their real characters ('&', '<', '>', '\
Will it remove <script> and <style> content, not just the tags?
Yes. Script and style blocks are removed entirely — both the tags and the code inside them — so you don't end up with leftover JavaScript or CSS in your plain text output.
Can I use this to convert HTML email to plain text?
Absolutely. Paste the raw HTML source of an email, click Clean Text, and you get a plain-text version suitable for text-only email clients, previews, ticketing systems, or archival.
Does the HTML cleaner run in my browser or on a server?
Everything runs in your browser. Your HTML never leaves your device, which matters when you're cleaning proprietary page source, private email content, or client data.
Can I use this for cleaning HTML before importing into WordPress or a CMS?
Yes — and it's a common use case. Pasting cleaned plain text into WordPress, Ghost, Notion, or Contentful avoids the invisible <span style=\
What's the difference between an HTML cleaner and 'View → Source'?
View Source shows you the raw HTML. An HTML cleaner takes that raw HTML and gives you back the *text* the page displayed, without any of the surrounding markup. If you need the words, this is faster than manually deleting tags.
Does it preserve line breaks and paragraphs?
Yes. Block-level tags like </p>, </div>, </h1>–</h6>, </li>, and <br> are converted to line breaks so the reading structure survives even after the tags are stripped.
Is there a size limit?
No hard limit — since processing is client-side, you're limited only by your browser's memory. Cleaning entire HTML pages (100KB+) works instantly on any modern device.