Strip HTML Tags

About the Strip HTML Tags Tool

The HTML you paste gets parsed with the browser engine DOMParser (the same parser that renders real web pages), rather than a regular expression that guesses at where tags start and end, since regex-based tag stripping breaks easily on nested or malformed markup. Any <script> and <style> elements are deleted from the parsed document before any text is pulled out, so their raw JavaScript or CSS source never leaks into your result. Block-level elements like paragraphs, list items, and line breaks each get a newline in the output, so content does not run together on one line.

• Native parsing, uses DOMParser instead of pattern matching, so it handles nested and complex HTML accurately.
• Script and style removal, both are deleted before text extraction, their code never shows up in the plain text.
• Readable spacing, paragraphs, list items, headings, table rows, and line breaks each start a new line, and long runs of blank lines get collapsed to two.

Scripts cannot execute here even without being explicitly removed

The parsed document created by new DOMParser().parseFromString() is never inserted into the live page, so it is inert by construction: pasted <script> tags in a document parsed this way do not run, images do not fetch, and nothing about the parsing step itself is capable of executing anything, regardless of what markup you paste in. The explicit doc.querySelectorAll("script, style").forEach(el => el.remove()) step exists specifically to stop the raw JavaScript or CSS source text sitting inside those tags from being pulled out as if it were regular readable content, since without removing them, the tree walk step would treat their inner text nodes like any paragraph text and include the code verbatim in your plain-text result.

Table cells and list containers formatting behavior

The set of tags that trigger a newline (P, DIV, LI, H1 through H6, BR, and TR) covers everyday block content, but it does not include TD/TH (table cells) or UL/OL (the list container itself, as opposed to its LI items). That means adjacent cells in the same table row run together without a newline: <tr><td>A</td><td>B</td></tr> comes out as "AB" on one line, since only the enclosing <tr> is in the block-tag set and each cell boundary is inline. If you are stripping HTML that includes tables, expect cell contents from the same row to be positioned on that row line.

HTML entities are decoded automatically as a native parsing effect

Because the source text is run through the browser native HTML parser rather than a find-and-replace pass, entities like &, <, or © in your pasted HTML come out already resolved to their plain characters (&, <, ©) in the output text, with no separate decoding step needed. That is simply what parsing HTML into a real document does (text nodes hold the resolved characters, not the raw entity source), which produces the same result as running text through this site's dedicated HTML Decoder tool.

Malformed or unclosed HTML is handled by HTML5 error-recovery rules

The HTML5 specification defines a precise, deterministic set of parsing and error-recovery rules (what to do with an unclosed <p> tag, an <li> outside a list, or mismatched nesting), and every modern browser built-in parser, including the one DOMParser uses, implements those same rules. That is why hand-written or copy-pasted HTML still gets handled predictably here: it is running the exact same well-defined recovery algorithm a browser uses to render a web page, which is considerably more reliable than simple regex patterns trying to approximate the same behavior.