HTML to Text
Convert HTML to plain text
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Conversion Options
Sample HTML
About HTML to Text
- - Strips all HTML tags while preserving text content
- - Decodes HTML entities (&, , etc.)
- - Optional link preservation in Markdown format
- - Useful for extracting content from web pages
- - All processing happens locally in your browser
How to Use
Extract plain text from HTML
Paste HTML
Enter HTML code or paste content copied from a webpage
Convert
Click convert to strip all HTML tags and styling
Get clean text
Copy the plain text output without any HTML formatting
Frequently Asked Questions
It strips all HTML tags, styles, and scripts from HTML content, leaving only the readable text content. This is useful for extracting article text from web pages, cleaning up formatted content, or preparing text for analysis without markup.
Basic converters remove all formatting. Advanced converters may preserve paragraph breaks, convert lists to bullet points with dashes, maintain table structure with spacing, and convert links to "text (URL)" format. Check tool options for formatting preferences.
All tags are removed: <p>, <div>, <span>, <a>, <img>, <table>, <style>, <script>, comments, and more. The tool extracts only the text content that would be visible to users, removing the underlying HTML structure.
Common uses include: creating plain text emails from HTML, extracting content for SEO analysis, preparing data for text processing, removing formatting for accessibility, creating text versions of web pages, and cleaning copy-pasted content from websites.
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