HTML to Text Converter

Strip all HTML tags and extract clean plain text. Scripts and styles are removed, entities decoded, and paragraph breaks preserved.

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HTML to Text Converter

Strip tags, keep the words

HTML Input

Paste HTML, drop a file, or

Plain Text

Output updates live as you type

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HTML to Text Converter — Frequently Asked Questions

Extracting prose for word counts or readability checks, producing the plain text half of a multipart email, feeding content to a tool that cannot parse markup, and pulling quotable text out of a saved page.

A naive regex leaves the contents of <script> and <style> behind as visible gibberish, does not decode entities, and collapses paragraphs into one run-on block. This removes those blocks wholly, turns & back into &, and keeps the line breaks that make the result readable.

Yes. Block elements such as paragraphs, headings, and list items produce line breaks, so the extracted text keeps the shape of the original document instead of becoming a single paragraph.

The visible link text is kept and the URL is dropped, which is what you want for reading. If you need the addresses, convert to Markdown instead — that keeps both the text and the target.

Yes, and it is a good first step. Stripping the markup first means your word count reflects the prose rather than attribute values and class names.

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Write markup with a live preview, then beautify it, minify it, validate the structure, or convert it to Markdown, JSX or plain text. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is stored on a server, so pasting client work or an unreleased page is not a decision you have to think about.