Remove HTML Tags from Text
The Remove HTML Tags tool filters out Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) tags in your text content. The HTML tags usually written in a format like this - opening tag, text content and closing tag. This tool removes these opening and closing tags.
What are HTML Tags?
The very purpose of this tool is to remove HTML tags from your text content. However, if you are not too familiar what are HTML tags let's have a quick look at it.
HTML tags are used to structure a website. A website contains headers, article, footer, paragraph, heading among others. These tags defines what the component is all about is it a button? Or is it a link?
To give you more details, let's explore some of the commonly used HTML tags to structure a website or a web page.
| Tag | Definition | Example |
<html> | The root element of HTML Document. | <html> ... </html> |
<head> | Houses the metadata, styles and scripts. | <head> <title>Remove HTML Tags</title> </head> |
<body> | The main container of the visible web page on the browser. | <body> ... </body> |
<p> | Represents a paragraph. | <p>This is a paragraph.</p> |
<a> | Represents a link. | <a href="https://textcleaner.co"> Text Cleaner </a> |
<img> | Displays an image in the document. It is a self-closing tag. | <img src="textcleaner.jpg" alt="logo" /> |
<div> | Divides and/or contains group of elements in a document. | <div> <p>Contains other elements</p> </div> |
<form> | Adds an empty form used to contain input fields/tags. | <form action="/submit" > <input type="text" /> </form> |
<input> | An input field where users can enter data. It is one of the few self-closing tags just like img HTML tag. | <input type="email" placeholder="Email" /> |
<h1> to <h6> | The heading of your text content from the largest h1 down to the smallest heading h6. | <h2> What is it's usage? </h2> |
<ul> and <li> | The ul creates an unordered list, while li defines the list item. Change ul to ol and you'll have an ordered (numbered) list. | <ul> <li>First Item</li> <li>Second Item</li> </ul> |
🚀 How to use the Remove HTML Tags tool ?
The tool's design is a very simple one, you just have to enter your unsanitized text content that contains html tags, paste them on the input field and click the submit button to display the result. Here's a step by step guide if you ever need one:
📋 Paste Your Text Content
The first input filed in the tool is a textarea labeled with ✍🏻 Text Input. Copy and paste your text content here with the html tags.
For example:
<h3> This is a heading tag (h3) </h3>
<p> This is a paragraph tag (p) </p>
<div> This is a div tag (div) </div>
<button> This is a button tag (button) </button>
<a href="#"> This is a link tag (a) </a>
🚀 Submit It
After pasting your text, just click on the yellow button marked with Submit. There result will be displayed beside your text content, it is another text area marked with 📑 Text Without HTML Tags. By placing them side by side, it makes comparison a little easier.
If you clicked on the 📋 Copy button and pasted it on the ✍🏻 Text Input field, you'll notice on the output field that the punctuation marks and currency symbols are gone. That's how this tool works.
🔍 Explore exceptions
Below the Submit and Clear buttons, you'll notice an additional input field. It is marked with ⚙️ Exclude Specific HTML Tag. In here you can add exempted tags, you don't want to include the header tag, just type it and press enter key.
By default, the Exception contains the header and footer tags. You can add as many tags here, and just beside it is the delete x button you can click to delete a tag.
🛠️ Copy and Clear
After you reviewed the output, you can copy them by clicking on the copy button. If you want to do more tasks like this, just click on the Clear button to reset the text areas.
⚙️ Form Components
As mentioned, the form only contains the components needed to remove the html tags but if you want to know each component and what it does, let's explore each of them here:
✍🏻 Text Input
This is the only part of the form where you can enter your text content. It strictly accepts only text-based content.
📑 Text Without HTML Tags
Placed beside the ✍🏻 Text Input field, this serves as the output area. It makes the comparison between the original text input and the output a little bit easier.
Submit and Clear
The trigger of the process is the Submit button. Also, by clicking on Clear button, it will trigger a deletion of the input and output text area contents.
⚙️ Exclude Specific HTML Tags
The Exclude Specific HTML Tags option allows you to create an exceptions, HTML tags that should not be included in the clean-up. You can add specific tags in here.
When you type a tag and press enter, it will reflect below the input field. Also, there are close buttons on each exempted tag so that you can delete unnecessary one's.
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