HTML to Plain Text

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. You can choose to preserve paragraph and heading structure as blank-line-separated blocks, or flatten everything to a single compact string.

All conversion runs in your browser using the built-in DOMParser — no HTML is sent to any server. Script and style elements are automatically removed from the output. This tool is ideal for extracting readable content from web pages, email templates, or any HTML document.

How to Use

1. Paste your HTML into the HTML Input area, or click Sample to load an example.
2. Toggle Preserve paragraph breaks to keep or collapse whitespace structure.
3. Click Convert to extract the plain text.
4. Click Copy to copy the result to your clipboard.

Use Cases

Content writers extracting text from HTML email templates for editing paste the raw HTML and instantly get clean readable text. Developers building search indexes strip HTML from web page content to index only the text. Data analysts extracting text from scraped HTML pages use this to clean input for NLP processing. Anyone needing to paste HTML content into a plain text document or email can use this to remove all formatting.

FAQ

• Are HTML entities decoded? — Yes. & becomes &,< becomes <,   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 enabled, block-level elements like <p>, <div>, and headings add blank lines to preserve visual structure. When disabled, 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.