HTML Tag Remover - Extract Plain Text from HTML Online

Preserve line breaks (br, p, div) Decode HTML entities Collapse whitespace Keep tags:

HTML input

Plain text output

What this tool does

Removes all HTML/XML tags from input text
Optionally preserves block-level line breaks (br, p, div, h1-h6, li, tr)
Decodes common HTML entities (&, <,  , ", numeric entities)
Collapses multiple spaces/newlines into single spaces
"Keep tags" lets you whitelist tags to preserve (e.g. b,i,strong for inline formatting)

Use cases

Extract clean text from scraped web pages
Clean up rich text editor output for plain-text use
Prepare content for email or SMS
Migrate content between CMSs without HTML clutter

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