March 26, 20263 min read

HTML Tag Stripper — Remove HTML Tags and Get Plain Text

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Strip all HTML tags from any text or markup. Converts HTML to plain text, removes inline styles and scripts, and optionally decodes HTML entities.

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HTML tags are everywhere in web content — copy text from a website and paste it somewhere else, and you often drag along a mess of ,

, , and entities. Cleaning that manually is soul-crushing. The CalcHub HTML Tag Stripper removes all HTML markup in one pass and gives you clean, readable plain text.

What Gets Removed

Element Type Example Result

Block tags
,
,
Removed (with optional newline)

Inline tags , , , Removed, content preserved

Self-closing , , Removed

Script/style ,

Element Type	Example	Result
Block tags	, ,	Removed (with optional newline)
Inline tags	, , ,	Removed, content preserved
Self-closing	, ,	Removed
Script/style	,