Strip HTML Tags

About the Strip HTML Tags Tool

The HTML you paste gets parsed with the browser's own DOMParser (the same engine that renders real web pages), rather than a regex that just 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 doesn't all run together on one line.

• Real parsing, uses DOMParser instead of pattern matching, so it handles nested and messy HTML correctly.
• 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 couldn't execute here even without being explicitly removed

The parsed document created by new DOMParser().parseFromString() is never inserted into the live page, so it's inert by construction — pasted <script> tags in a document parsed this way don't run, images don't 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 isn't there for safety in that sense; it 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 walk step would treat their inner text nodes exactly like any paragraph's text and include the code verbatim in your plain-text result.

Table cells and list containers don't get their own line break

The set of tags that trigger a newline — P, DIV, LI, H1 through H6, BR, and TR — covers most everyday block content, but it doesn't 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 with no separator at all: <tr><td>A</td><td>B</td></tr> comes out as "AB" on one line, not "A B" or "A" and "B" on separate lines, since only the enclosing <tr> is in the block-tag set and each cell's boundary isn't. If you're stripping HTML that includes tables, expect cell contents from the same row to be glued together in the output.

HTML entities are decoded automatically, as a side effect of real parsing

Because the source text is run through the browser's actual 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's simply what parsing HTML into a real document does — text nodes hold the resolved characters, not the raw entity source — which is a different mechanism from, but produces the same result as, running text through this site's dedicated HTML Decoder tool.

Malformed or unclosed HTML is handled by the same error-recovery rules browsers use to render broken pages

The HTML5 specification defines a precise, deterministic set of parsing and error-recovery rules — what to do with an unclosed <p> tag, a <li> outside a list, or mismatched nesting — and every modern browser's built-in parser, including the one DOMParser uses, implements those same rules. That's why genuinely messy, hand-written, or copy-pasted-from-somewhere-weird HTML still gets handled sensibly here: it's not that the parser is guessing or being lenient in some ad hoc way, it's running the exact same well-defined recovery algorithm a browser uses to render a broken real-world web page, which is considerably more robust than any regex pattern trying to approximate the same behavior.