HTML to Text Converter
Strip all HTML tags and turn messy web code into clean, readable plain text. Preserve paragraph and line breaks, decode HTML entities automatically, and extract the exact content you need. No uploads, no signup — just paste and convert.
Why use this HTML to Text converter?
When you need to extract readable content from HTML – maybe for a newsletter, a plain‑text log, or to strip formatting before using other tools – this converter saves you the headache of manual cleanup. Because it runs entirely in your browser, your code stays private and conversion is instant.
- Smart tag removal – removes all HTML tags while preserving meaningful whitespace.
- Paragraph & line break handling – converts
<p>into double newlines and<br>into single newlines, making output readable. - Entity decoding – turns
&into&,<into<, and all other named/numeric entities back to their original characters. - No file size limit – paste a huge HTML document; it's processed locally without any upload.
How to convert HTML to plain text (step‑by‑step)
1. Paste your HTML
Copy the source code of a webpage, an HTML email, or any rich‑text export and drop it into the left box.
2. Toggle options
By default, paragraphs become double newlines,
becomes a single newline, and HTML entities are decoded. Toggle any of these off if you want raw output.
3. See the result
The plain text appears instantly on the right. Scroll to verify that headings, lists, and other block elements are separated nicely.
4. Copy or download
Use the buttons to copy the text to your clipboard or download it as a .txt file. That's it – no signup, no waiting.
Example: before and after
| Input HTML | Output Text (with paragraph preservation) |
|---|---|
WelcomeHello & welcome to our site. Visit our blog for more. |
Welcome Hello & welcome to our site. Visit our blog for more. |
Common use cases
- Email plain‑text fallback: Create the text/plain version of an HTML newsletter.
- Web scraping prep: Strip tags before feeding text into analysis tools.
- Data extraction: Pull readable content from API responses that return HTML.
- Document conversion: Turn HTML resumes or articles into plain text for older systems.
- Debugging: Check what a webpage's raw text content looks like without styles.
Pro tips
- If your HTML contains inline CSS or JavaScript, they'll be stripped out too – only visible text remains.
- For better paragraph detection, keep "Preserve paragraphs" on. It converts
</p>,</div>,</h1>–</h6>, and</li>into double newlines. - Need the reverse? Use our Text to HTML tool to wrap plain text back into HTML.
- After stripping HTML, you can further clean the text with our Whitespace Cleaner or Text Sorter.