What exactly gets removed?

All HTML tags are stripped, and script blocks, style blocks and comments are removed entirely along with their contents, leaving only the readable text between the tags.

Why are script and style blocks removed completely?

Because their contents are code, not readable text. If only the tags were removed, you would be left with raw JavaScript or CSS in your output, so the whole block is deleted.

Does decoding entities change the text?

With entity decoding on, codes like the ampersand-amp, ampersand-lt and numeric references become their real characters. Turn it off to keep the entities literal in the output.

What does collapsing whitespace do?

Stripped HTML often leaves long runs of spaces and blank lines. Collapsing whitespace squeezes those down so the plain text reads cleanly without large gaps.

Is this safe — does it run the HTML?

Yes, it is safe. The tool strips tags with text processing only; no HTML is rendered or executed, so even malicious markup cannot run, and nothing leaves your browser.

Can I use it to extract article text from a copied web page?

Yes. Paste the page source or rich-text copy and it returns the readable text with the markup, scripts, and styles removed — handy for notes, summaries, or word counts.

Strip HTML Tags — Gera Tools

Content pasted from a web page, email, or CMS often carries hidden HTML tags, inline styles, and scripts. This strip HTML tags tool removes all of them and returns clean, readable plain text — useful for notes, imports, word counts, and feeding text into other tools.

How it works

The cleaning is pure text processing, never rendering:

Remove code blocks. Entire <script> and <style> blocks and HTML comments are deleted along with their contents, because that content is code, not text.
Strip tags. Every remaining <...> tag is removed, leaving the text between them.
Optional entity decoding. Codes such as &, <, and numeric references become their real characters when the option is on.
Optional whitespace collapse. Long runs of spaces and blank lines are squeezed for readable output.

Because no markup is ever inserted into the page, even hostile HTML cannot execute.

Example

Input:

<p>Hello <b>world</b> &amp; welcome!</p><script>alert(1)</script>

Output (entities decoded, whitespace collapsed):

Hello world & welcome!

The <script> block is dropped entirely, the tags are stripped, and & decodes to &. Everything runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded.