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**Created:** [June 15, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/strip-html-and-create-plain-text/695 "2020-06-15T14:17:08Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Brian\_Brewer](https://community.parabola.io/u/Brian_Brewer)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/strip-html-and-create-plain-text/695/1 "2020-06-15T14:17:08Z")
New parabola user here. Is there an easy way to strip html from a column and turn it into plain text?
Many thanks in advance…
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**Author:**  [@brian](https://community.parabola.io/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/strip-html-and-create-plain-text/695/2 "2020-06-15T22:11:13Z")
Hey Brian,
Your best bet is to use a Regular Expression in the RegEx step.
I looked at the community posted expressions on [https://regexr.com/](https://regexr.com/) and this one seems best:
`()|()|()|(<\/?(\s|\S)*?>)`
Try that out in the expression box. Set it to replace with nothing.
If you have non-tag things you need to remove, like non-breaking spaces ` ` then you will need to take care of those separately.
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**Author:**  [@zach](https://community.parabola.io/u/zach)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/strip-html-and-create-plain-text/695/3 "2020-06-15T22:28:25Z")
If you want to extract the text content of a full webpage, using @brian’s regex is pretty safe.
If your columns just contain very simple html snippets, and you know there aren’t `