HTML Cleaner & HTML Stripper — Everything You Need to Know
Whether you're a developer cleaning up CMS output, a copywriter extracting text from a webpage, or a designer removing messy Word-pasted markup, an HTML code cleaner is one of the most useful tools in your workflow. Our free, in-browser HTML cleaner handles everything from removing comments and scripts to full HTML stripper mode for pure plain text.
What is an HTML code cleaner?
An HTML code cleaner is a tool that takes raw HTML input and removes or reformats unwanted elements. Common tasks include stripping HTML comments (<!-- ... -->), deleting embedded <script> and <style> blocks, removing inline style="" attributes left over from email clients or word processors, and prettifying the resulting markup with clean indentation.
HTML stripper mode — extract plain text instantly
The HTML stripper option removes every single HTML tag from the document, leaving only the text content that a user would see in a browser. This is invaluable for feeding content into AI tools, running word counts, importing into spreadsheets, or anywhere you need the text without the markup. Simply enable "Strip all tags (plain text only)" and click Clean HTML.
Cleaning HTML from Word, Google Docs, and email clients
Content copied from Microsoft Word or Google Docs into a CMS typically brings a storm of inline styles, class attributes, and span tags. Email templates from tools like Mailchimp or Constant Contact likewise embed heavy inline CSS. The HTML code cleaner's attribute-cleaning options let you strip all of that in one click, giving your team clean markup they can actually maintain.
When to use the prettify option
The prettify option re-indents your HTML with consistent 2-space indentation on block-level elements. This is ideal after minifying a file for production — if you need to read it again later — or after running through a templating engine that collapses all whitespace. Readable code is easier to debug and review.
HTML cleaner vs. HTML validator
A cleaner removes unwanted content; a validator checks whether your HTML is syntactically correct. Use the HTML code cleaner first to remove noise, then run the result through a validator (such as the W3C Markup Validation Service) to catch structural errors. The two tools complement each other perfectly.