Remove all inline HTML from Markdown while keeping the text content. Clean up pasted CMS exports.
Free Markdown HTML Stripper removes all inline HTML tags from your Markdown document while keeping the text content intact. Clean up pasted CMS exports, strip HTML comments, and optionally preserve self-closing tags like
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Privacy: This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your text is never uploaded, logged, or cached. Close the tab and it's gone. Verify in DevTools → Network: zero requests fire.
CMS-to-Markdown migrations leave HTML debris everywhere. Cleaning it shouldn't cost anything. The tool runs entirely in your browser.
| Input | Output | Typical size | Speed | Login needed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Markdown (.md) with HTML | Pure Markdown | Any document size | < 10 ms | No |
Here's what this free tool does in detail — every feature is built to solve real problems, runs entirely in your browser, and is free forever.
By default, HTML tags are stripped but their text content stays. <span style="color:red">important</span> becomes just important. Toggle off text preservation to remove both the tags and their contents.
For converting full HTML documents to Markdown, see the HTML to Markdown converter.
Draft comments like <!-- TODO: fix this --> are removed by default. Toggle the option off to keep comments in your output, which is useful when they carry meaningful annotations.
Tags like <br/>, <hr/>, and <img/> are stripped by default. Enable Preserve self-closing to keep them, which is useful when your Markdown renderer supports HTML line breaks and horizontal rules.
For general formatting cleanup, try the Markdown Formatter.
HTML tags inside fenced code blocks and inline code spans are never stripped. Example code that shows HTML remains intact.
Paste any Markdown containing HTML tags, or click Load example.
Choose whether to keep text content, strip comments, and preserve self-closing tags.
Click Copy stripped Markdown and paste back into your editor.
CMS exports include HTML wrappers. Strip them to get clean Markdown.
Legacy docs mix HTML and Markdown. Strip the HTML to standardize.
Strip CMS-specific HTML before importing into a new Markdown-based system.
Strip HTML comments from published documentation in one pass.
Paste from web editors and clean up the HTML artifacts.
Yes. Free forever, no account required.
Yes, by default. Toggle 'Preserve self-closing' to keep
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By default it is kept. Toggle 'Keep text content' off to remove it entirely.
Yes, by default. Toggle 'Strip comments' off to preserve them.
No. HTML inside fenced code blocks and inline code is never stripped.
No. Runs 100% in your browser.