📃HTML to Text

Strip HTML tags and convert HTML content to clean plain text.

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HTML Input

Plain Text Output

About HTML to Text

Strip all HTML tags from markup and extract the clean, readable plain text content. Handles block elements like paragraphs and headings as line breaks, removes scripts and styles, and decodes HTML entities back to their plain text equivalents.

How to Use HTML to Text

1
Paste your HTML
Enter the HTML content you want to convert to plain text.
2
Convert
Click Convert to strip tags and produce clean text output.
3
Copy the text
Copy the extracted plain text for use in documents or other applications.

Common Use Cases

Extracting readable content from scraped web pages
Converting HTML email templates to plain text versions
Cleaning HTML-formatted data before text analysis
Stripping markup from CMS exports for editing

Frequently Asked Questions

Are HTML entities converted to plain text?

Yes, entities like &, <, and   are decoded back to their plain text characters.

Does it remove inline styles and scripts?

Yes, all script, style, and meta tag content is stripped along with HTML tags.

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