Claude strip HTML tool

Claude strip HTML

What the Claude strip HTML tool gives you back

You have markup and you want the words. The Claude strip HTML tool removes every tag, deletes script and style blocks along with their contents, and hands back the readable text that was in between.

It runs in your browser, so there is no upload, no length cap and no run limit. Paste a fragment or a whole document, it makes no difference to the speed.

One thing to know before you start: this is a removal pass, not a parser. It matches tags and deletes them rather than building a document and reading its structure. That is why it is instant and local, and it is also why a paragraph tag does not become a blank line. Everything on this page follows from that one design decision.

Before you run it

What happens to each part of your HTML

Run through this list once and the result will hold no surprises.

Tags and attributes

Gone. Classes, ids, hrefs, styles and data attributes leave with the tag they were on.

Link text

Stays. The words a reader saw remain, the destination does not.

Alt text

Goes. It lives in an attribute, so it leaves with the image tag.

Script and style blocks

Deleted whole. You will not find CSS or JavaScript in the output.

Text inside head elements

Stays, as plain words. A page title ends up as the first line of your result.

How it works

How to strip HTML from Claude output in three steps

Nothing to configure. There are no options on this route.

Step 1

Paste the markup, whether it came from an Artifact, a code block or a rendered page.

Step 2

Run it. Tags and script and style blocks are removed locally in one pass.

Step 3

Copy the text and scan the first line, where head content lands if you pasted a full document.

Entities

Which HTML entities get decoded, and which do not

Four are converted back to characters. The rest come through as literal text, which is the honest answer and the one most tool pages skip.

 

Becomes an ordinary space, which matters because it is the entity that most often survives a paste.

&

Becomes an ampersand.

< and >

Become angle brackets. If your source had escaped markup, this is why brackets appear in your result.

", ', ©

Not decoded. They stay exactly as written and you will need to replace them yourself.

Numeric entities

Also not decoded. Anything in the ’ style comes through unchanged.

The usual question

Do paragraphs survive stripping the HTML?

The line breaks already in your source stay. Most markup arrives with a newline after each tag, so in practice the text comes back roughly on the lines it was written on.

There is no conversion step, though. A paragraph tag does not turn into a blank line and a list item does not start a new one. Minified HTML, which has no newlines at all, comes back as one long line. Add the breaks yourself, or use the markdown formatter afterwards to tidy the spacing.

Why it matters

What leftover HTML actually breaks

Four concrete failures, all of them common.

A CMS field

Stray markup either renders as broken layout or shows your readers literal angle brackets.

A word count

Tags and attributes count as words, so a 400-word article can report as 700.

An email composer

Unclosed markup pasted into a rich-text editor can swallow everything after it.

A plain-text export

Tags survive as visible noise a reader has to look past line by line.

In practice

Who uses the Claude strip HTML tool, and when

Mostly people who asked Claude for a build and wanted the copy.

Writers and editors

Pulling the readable text out of an Artifact so it can be edited as prose.

SEO and content teams

Extracting body text from a page to check length, keyword placement or reading level.

Developers

Checking what a template actually says once the structure is gone, which is how placeholder text gets caught.

Support and ops

Turning an HTML email into something that can be pasted into a ticket without breaking it.