HTML to Plain Text Converter
Strip HTML tags and extract readable plain text from any HTML.
HTML Input
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Plain Text Output
About This Tool
The HTML to Plain Text Converter strips all HTML tags from a document and returns the readable text content. HTML entities like &, <, and   are decoded to their actual characters.
When "Preserve paragraph breaks" is on, block-level elements like p, div, and headings add blank lines to preserve visual structure. When off, all whitespace collapses to a single space. Conversion runs in your browser using DOMParser — no data is sent to any server.
How to Use
- Paste your HTML into the input area or click Sample to load an example.
- Toggle "Preserve paragraph breaks" as needed.
- Click Convert to extract the plain text.
- Click Copy to copy the result to your clipboard.
Use Cases
Extract text from HTML email templates, build search indexes, clean HTML from web scraping for NLP, or paste HTML content into plain text documents.
FAQ
- Are HTML entities decoded? — Yes. &amp; becomes &, &lt; becomes <, &nbsp; becomes a space, and all standard HTML entities are resolved.
- Are script and style tags removed? — Yes. Content inside script and style tags is completely removed from the output.
- What does "Preserve paragraph breaks" do? — When on, block-level elements like p, div, and headings add blank lines to preserve visual structure. When off, all whitespace collapses to a single space.
- Is my HTML sent to a server? — No. Processing happens entirely in your browser. Your HTML content never leaves your device.