Is Strip HTML Tags free?
Yes. It is free and runs entirely in your browser, with no account required.
Does it run locally?
Yes. Tag stripping happens in your browser with no backend, so your content is never uploaded.
How is this different from HTML to Text?
This is the simpler cleanup path that just removes tags; HTML to Text tries to preserve paragraph and list structure.
Will it keep any formatting?
No. It returns plain text only, removing all tags and formatting so you keep just the words.
What is it useful for?
It is great for cleaning pasted snippets, email content, and exports where you only need the readable text.
Why did my words run together?
The stripper concatenates text nodes without inserting anything at element boundaries, so the end of a heading and the start of the next paragraph touch. A document like <h1>Title</h1><p>Para one.</p> produces "TitlePara one." That is expected for a blunt tag stripper, and it is exactly the case where HTML to Text is the right page, because that tool adds a blank line after every block element.
Is this regex-based?
No. The markup is parsed with DOMParser and the text is read from the resulting tree. A regex stripper is the usual approach and it fails on the awkward cases: an attribute value containing a > character, a comment containing a tag, or script content containing comparison operators. Parsing avoids all of them.
Are HTML entities decoded?
Yes. Because the text comes from the parsed DOM, & arrives as &, < as <, and ' as an apostrophe. That is what you want for plain-text reuse and dangerous if you paste the result back into HTML, where those characters now have meaning again.
What happens to script and style content?
It is dropped. The text extractor returns an empty string for script, style, and noscript elements, so you do not end up with JavaScript source or CSS rules mixed into your text. Their contents are not shown anywhere in the output.
Does the markup leave my browser?
No. Parsing and text extraction happen locally in the page, and nothing is sent to a server. That matters here because HTML pasted for stripping is often copied from an internal CMS, an email, or a customer ticket.
When should I use HTML to Text instead?
Whenever the source has more than one block element. HTML to Text keeps paragraph and heading breaks as blank lines and turns list items into dashed lines, while this page returns one unbroken line. Use this page when you have a single paragraph or a fragment and you want nothing but the words.