HTML to Plain Text
Strip HTML tags and extract clean readable text. Runs entirely in your browser.
About the HTML to Text Converter
This HTML to text converter strips tags and returns readable plain text, decoding entities such as & and back to real characters and keeping paragraph breaks, so the result reads as prose instead of collapsing into one unbroken block.
Convert HTML to text whenever markup gets in the way of the words: preparing a plain-text email alternative, extracting copy from a scraped page, pulling content out of a CMS export, or feeding text into a tool that cannot parse markup.
Naive tag-stripping produces two familiar problems. Entities are left raw, so & and appear literally in the output. And with tags removed, block-level structure vanishes and everything runs together — both handled here by decoding entities and preserving paragraph and line breaks.
Script and style contents are removed rather than dumped into the output as text, which is what happens when tags are stripped with a naive regular expression. Everything runs in your browser.
How to use the HTML to Text Converter
- Paste your HTML. Enter the markup or page source.
- Convert. Tags are stripped and entities decoded.
- Check the breaks. Confirm paragraph structure survived where you needed it.
- Copy the text. Take the clean plain text.
HTML to Text Converter features
- Tag removal
- Text preservation
- Format cleaning
- Line break handling
- Copy to clipboard
- Large text support
Frequently asked questions
How do I remove HTML tags?
Paste your HTML and the converter removes all tags, leaving only the readable text content.
What about formatting?
Removes HTML tags but preserves paragraph breaks and basic text structure.
Can I clean multiple HTML files?
Process one file at a time by pasting the HTML content into the converter.