HTML encode/decode special characters, strip HTML tags, minify HTML, and more online for free. Free HTML toolkit for developers with no signup.
Select "Strip Tags" at tools.arkaserve.com/html-tools, paste your HTML, and the output is clean plain text with all tags removed. This is useful for extracting readable content from web pages for text analysis, word counting, sentiment analysis, copy-editing, or preparing content for plain-text email versions. Completely free, no signup, handles full pages.
Select "Minify," paste your HTML markup, and the tool removes all unnecessary whitespace, line breaks, and HTML comments to create the smallest possible file. Typical HTML files shrink by 10–30%. The minified HTML renders identically in all browsers — whitespace between tags is not significant in HTML rendering. Use the minified version for deployment and keep the readable source in your repository.
HTML encoding converts special characters — < (becomes <), > (>), & (&), " (") — into HTML entity codes so they display as visible text rather than being parsed as HTML syntax. You need it when displaying user-generated content, code snippets, or template syntax inside an HTML page to prevent the browser from interpreting the characters as tags, and to prevent XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) security vulnerabilities.