HTML Input

Plain Text Output

What Is an HTML to Text Converter?

An HTML to text converter removes all HTML tags from a document and returns only the visible text content. It strips <script>, <style>, and <head> content entirely, while preserving meaningful line breaks from block elements like <p>, <br>, <h1>-<h6>, and <div>.

This is useful when you need to process the readable content of a webpage without the surrounding HTML structure — for indexing, NLP pipelines, content analysis, or generating plain text emails from HTML templates.

How to Convert HTML to Plain Text

Follow these steps to extract plain text from any HTML input.

Paste or Upload HTML

Paste your HTML into the left HTML Input panel, or click Upload. Click Sample to try an example.

View Plain Text Output

The right Plain Text Output panel shows the extracted text. Tags are removed, paragraphs and headings create line breaks, and script/style content is discarded.

Copy the Result

Click Copy to copy the extracted plain text to your clipboard for use in emails, search indexing, or any text-based workflow.

When to Strip HTML Tags

Generating Plain Text Emails

Email clients require both an HTML and a plain text part. Use this tool to generate the text/plain version from your HTML email template automatically.

Content Indexing & Search

Search engines and internal search systems often need plain text for indexing. Strip the HTML wrapper from crawled pages to get indexable content.

NLP & Text Analysis

Natural language processing pipelines work on clean text. Remove HTML markup from scraped data before feeding it into sentiment analysis, summarization, or classification models.

Accessibility & Text Export

Export the readable text from HTML-based documents for screen readers, text-to-speech systems, or plain text archives.

Common Questions

Are script and style contents removed?

Yes. The content of <script>, <style>, <head>, and <noscript> tags is discarded entirely — only visible text is kept.

Are line breaks preserved?

Yes. Block-level elements like <p>, <br>, <h1>-<h6>, <li>, and <div> create newlines in the output so the text remains readable.

What about HTML entities like &amp;?

HTML entities are decoded — & becomes &, < becomes <, and so on — so the output text reads naturally.

Is my data stored?

No. All processing happens in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server.

Does it handle malformed HTML?

Yes. The browser's DOMParser is used for parsing, which handles malformed HTML gracefully by applying the same error recovery rules browsers use when rendering pages.

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