Remove HTML Tags

Strip all HTML tags from any text or webpage source and get clean plain text instantly.

What is a Remove HTML Tags?

An HTML tag remover strips all markup from HTML source code, leaving only the visible text content.

When you copy text from a webpage, email, or CMS, it often carries invisible HTML markup that makes it unusable in plain-text environments. Pasting it into a document, spreadsheet, or API field can result in tags like <p>, <br>, and <span> appearing as literal characters. Stripping the tags in one step gives you clean, portable text.

ShelfCue processes all text locally in your browser. Nothing is sent to our servers. Your text is never stored, logged, or shared.

How to Use Remove HTML Tags

  1. 1Paste your HTML into the text area.
  2. 2Optionally check 'Decode HTML entities' to convert &amp;, &lt;, &nbsp; etc. back to regular characters.
  3. 3Click 'Strip HTML Tags'.
  4. 4Copy the clean plain text from the output.

Features

  • Removes all HTML tags in one click
  • Decodes common HTML entities (&amp; &lt; &gt; &quot; &nbsp;)
  • Works on full pages, snippets, or single elements
  • All processing runs in your browser

Common Use Cases

Cleaning web-scraped data

A data analyst scraping product descriptions pastes the raw HTML response and strips all tags before importing the clean text into a spreadsheet.

Copying CMS content

A content manager exports blog posts from WordPress and uses this tool to clean the HTML before pasting into a new platform that only accepts plain text.

Processing email templates

A developer testing an HTML email pastes the source to quickly read the plain-text version without opening it in a mail client.

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