diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index faef56f9..c9572365 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "regex",
  "rusqlite",
  "sourceview5",
+ "strip-tags",
  "syntect",
 ]
 
@@ -1369,6 +1370,12 @@ version = "1.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6ce2be8dc25455e1f91df71bfa12ad37d7af1092ae736f3a6cd0e37bc7810596"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "strip-tags"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ecd2b127e68202f5f285a116f616d5d11735cca5e4befaea0347becd445b05b2"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "syn"
 version = "2.0.117"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index cef34946..b6bec1c4 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ plurify = "0.2.0"
 r2d2 = "0.8.10"
 r2d2_sqlite = "0.32.0"
 regex = "1.12.3"
+strip-tags = "0.1.0"
 syntect = "5.2.0"
 
 # development
diff --git a/src/app/browser/window/tab/item/page/content/text/markdown.rs b/src/app/browser/window/tab/item/page/content/text/markdown.rs
index 49a69990..9eb450d1 100644
--- a/src/app/browser/window/tab/item/page/content/text/markdown.rs
+++ b/src/app/browser/window/tab/item/page/content/text/markdown.rs
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ use gtk::{
 use gutter::Gutter;
 use sourceview::prelude::{ActionExt, ActionMapExt, DisplayExt, ToVariant};
 use std::{cell::Cell, collections::HashMap, rc::Rc};
+use strip_tags::*;
 use tags::Tags;
 
 pub struct Markdown {
@@ -39,9 +40,6 @@ impl Markdown {
         // * maybe less expensive than update entire HashMap by iter
         let hover: Rc<Cell<Option<TextTag>>> = Rc::new(Cell::new(None));
 
-        // Init code features
-        //let mut code = None;
-
         // Init colors
         // @TODO use accent colors in adw 1.6 / ubuntu 24.10+
         let link_color = (
@@ -54,7 +52,7 @@ impl Markdown {
 
         // Init new text buffer
         let buffer = TextBuffer::new(Some(&TextTagTable::new()));
-        buffer.set_text(markdown);
+        buffer.set_text(&strip_tags(markdown)); // @TODO extract `<img>` tags?
 
         // Init main widget
         let text_view = {