HTML → Text

HTML → Text

HTML to plain text converter online. Strip all HTML tags and extract text content only. Remove HTML tags free—get clean text instantly.

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Features
 
  •  Strip all HTML tags from content
  •  Extract plain text content only
  •  Preserve or remove line breaks
  •  Decode HTML entities (e.g., & → &)
  •  Clean extra whitespace
  •  Copy extracted text instantly
 
Common Use Cases
 
  •  Extract article content from HTML for analytics
  •  Get plain text from rich HTML emails
  •  Convert HTML blog posts to plain text for AI processing
  •  Remove formatting from copied HTML text
  •  Extract readable content from scraped web pages
 
HTML Text Extraction
 
HTML text extraction is the process of removing all HTML markup and tags to retrieve only the readable text content. This is useful when you need the content without formatting, links, or structure.

			
			
What gets removed:

			
    
				
  • All HTML tags: <div>, <p>, <a>, etc.
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  • Attributes: class, id, style, href, etc.
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  • Script and style content: JavaScript and CSS code (optional)
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  • HTML comments: <!-- comment -->
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What gets preserved:

			
    
				
  • Text content: All visible text between tags
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  • Line breaks: Optionally preserve paragraph and line breaks
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  • Decoded entities: &nbsp; → space, &lt; → <
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  • Whitespace: Can be normalized or preserved
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Common use cases:

			
    
				
  • Content analysis: Word count, readability scores, keyword density
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  • AI/ML processing: Feed clean text to language models
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  • Search indexing: Extract searchable content from HTML
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  • Data export: Convert HTML content to plain text files
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Examples
 
 Valid - HTML with Links
 
<p>Visit <a href="/about">our about page</a> for more info.</p>
 Valid - Formatted Text
 
<div><strong>Bold</strong> and <em>italic</em> text</div>
 Valid - HTML Entities
 
<p>5 &lt; 10 &amp; 10 &gt; 5</p>
  
Frequently Asked Questions
 
 
Will this preserve paragraph breaks?
 
Yes, you can toggle the "Preserve line breaks" option to maintain paragraph structure. Block-level elements like 
, 
, and 
 will be converted to line breaks.
 
How are HTML entities handled?
 
HTML entities like &nbsp;, &lt;, &gt;, and &quot; are automatically decoded to their corresponding characters (space, <, >, ") in the output.
 
Does this remove script and style content?
 
Yes, the contents of