Remove simple formatting tags
Input
[b]Bold[/b] and [i]italic[/i]
Output
Bold and italic
Keeps the text and removes formatting tags.
Developer Tools
Review practical Extract Text from BBCode examples so you can understand expected input, output, and common patterns faster.
Use this tool to extract readable text from BBCode by removing formatting tags and keeping the visible content. It is useful for forum post cleanup, migration work, archiving, indexing, and any situation where the text matters more than the original BBCode formatting.
Example pages are especially useful for developer tools because they show what good input looks like, what kind of output to expect, and how the tool behaves in common scenarios.
Input
[b]Bold[/b] and [i]italic[/i]
Output
Bold and italic
Keeps the text and removes formatting tags.
Input
[url=https://example.com]Visit site[/url]
Output
Visit site
Useful when only the visible link text matters.
Fix: This tool keeps readable text, not full markup or metadata.
Fix: Clean obvious malformed tags before extracting text.
Fix: Use BBCode to HTML if you want to keep formatting as markup.
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