Question 1

What does the HTML tag stripper do?

Accepted Answer

The HTML tag stripper removes all HTML tags from a string, leaving only the visible text content. It converts marked-up HTML like

Hello World

into plain text: "Hello World". This is useful for reading raw text from HTML source, preparing content for plain-text emails, or extracting data from HTML.

Question 2

Does it handle nested tags and attributes?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The stripper removes all opening tags (like

), closing tags (

), and self-closing tags (
) regardless of nesting depth or how many attributes they have. Only the text nodes between tags are kept.

Question 3

What happens to HTML entities like & or  ?

Accepted Answer

HTML entities (&,  , <, >, etc.) can optionally be decoded to their text equivalents. For example, & becomes &, < becomes <, and   becomes a space. Enable the decode entities option if you want readable plain text.

Question 4

Will it preserve line breaks from block elements?

Accepted Answer

Basic tag stripping removes tags but does not automatically convert block elements like

,
,

, or

into newlines. Some implementations insert line breaks for block-level elements. Check your output and add a newline insertion option if your tool supports it.

Question 5

Is it safe to use for sanitizing user input?

Accepted Answer

This tool is for extracting readable text, not for security sanitization. Do not rely on this tag stripper alone to sanitize user input for database storage or rendering in browsers — use a dedicated HTML sanitizer library (e.g., DOMPurify) for that purpose to prevent XSS attacks.

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