In what order are the cleanup steps applied?

HTML tags, punctuation, and numbers are stripped first, then spaces are collapsed, and finally lines are trimmed and empty lines removed. This order avoids leaving behind stray whitespace from removed characters.

What counts as "punctuation" when I enable that option?

Any character that isn't a letter, digit, or whitespace — commas, periods, quotes, dashes, symbols like @ and #, and similar characters are all removed.

Will removing HTML tags break the surrounding text?

No, only the tags themselves (anything between ) are removed — the text content inside and around tags stays intact, though attributes and tag names disappear along with the markup.

Is my text uploaded anywhere?

No. Everything runs locally in your browser with JavaScript — your text is never sent to a server.

TEXT CLEANER

Strip HTML, punctuation, numbers, and stray whitespace from messy text in one pass. Nothing leaves your browser.

Input (126 chars)

Output (110 chars)

This is <b>messy</b> text!!!


It has HTML tags, punctuation—like this?, and numbers like 12345.

Clean it up.

Before: 126 charsAfter: 110 charsRemoved: 16 chars

How to clean up text

1
Paste or type your messy text into the input box.
2
Toggle the cleanup options you need — trim lines and collapse extra spaces are on by default, while HTML, punctuation, and number removal are off until you turn them on.
3
Copy the cleaned result from the output box — it updates live as you change options.

Questions

In what order are the cleanup steps applied?: HTML tags, punctuation, and numbers are stripped first, then spaces are collapsed, and finally lines are trimmed and empty lines removed. This order avoids leaving behind stray whitespace from removed characters.
What counts as "punctuation" when I enable that option?: Any character that isn't a letter, digit, or whitespace — commas, periods, quotes, dashes, symbols like @ and #, and similar characters are all removed.
Will removing HTML tags break the surrounding text?: No, only the tags themselves (anything between < and >) are removed — the text content inside and around tags stays intact, though attributes and tag names disappear along with the markup.
Is my text uploaded anywhere?: No. Everything runs locally in your browser with JavaScript — your text is never sent to a server.