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HTML Cleaner

Paste bloated HTML and get clean, semantic, readable markup β€” scripts and styles gone, attributes stripped, wrapper divs flattened. Perfect to read, to ship, or to convert to Markdown for an LLM. It all runs in your browser.

Cleaned, semantic HTML appears here.

Runs in your browser. Your input is not uploaded to PayloadIQ.

From div soup to semantic HTML

Copy HTML from a website, a CMS, or an email and you get a tangle of wrapper <div>s, inline styles, framework classes, and tracking attributes. This cleaner parses it with the browser's own engine and rebuilds it as minimal, semantic markup: presentational tags become their real equivalents (<b> β†’ <strong>), layout wrappers are flattened, attributes are stripped to a small content allowlist, and what's left is pretty-printed. Every step is a toggle, so you control how aggressive it is.

Cleaner HTML, better AI context

A model reading HTML pays in tokens for every class, style, and stray wrapper it has to see past β€” and the structure often gets lost in the noise. Semantic HTML keeps the headings, lists, and tables that carry meaning and drops the rest. It's also the best possible input for Markdown conversion: clean HTML in means clean Markdown out. Tidy it here, then run it through HTML to Markdown for the tightest context you can hand an LLM.

Local and safe

Scripts, event handlers, and javascript: links are always removed, and nothing you paste leaves your browser. Copy the result or download a .html file.

FAQ

What does the HTML cleaner actually remove?
Always: scripts, styles, comments, iframes, and event handlers. Optionally: every attribute except a small content allowlist (href, src, alt, title…), wrapper <div>/<span> tags, presentational tags like <font> and <center>, <nav>/<aside> navigation, and elements left empty. You choose with the toggles.
Why clean HTML before giving it to an LLM?
Raw web HTML is mostly noise to a model β€” classes, inline styles, tracking attributes, and nested wrapper divs. Cleaning it to semantic HTML keeps the meaning (headings, lists, tables, links) while cutting the markup, so the model spends its context on content, not tags. It also converts to far cleaner Markdown.
Is my HTML uploaded?
No. The cleaning runs in your browser using the built-in HTML parser. Whatever you paste stays on your device.
How does this pair with the Markdown converter?
Clean HTML is the ideal input for the HTML to Markdown tool: tidy, semantic markup produces tidy, predictable Markdown. Clean here first, then convert β€” the result is the best possible context to hand an AI.

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