HTML to Plain Text

What is HTML to text conversion?

HTML to text conversion removes web tags, scripts, styles, comments, and layout code while keeping readable content. You can keep paragraph breaks, link URLs, and image alt text. It is useful for extracting articles, cleaning email content, creating plain-text backups, and preparing data for search or analysis.

How to use the HTML to text converter

1. Paste HTML source or a snippet into the input area, or load the example to see the output.
2. Choose paragraph breaks, link URLs, and image alt based on your use case. Paragraph breaks are usually useful for email or document copying.
3. Convert, review the word count and text, then copy the result or download converted.txt.

Main HTML to text use cases

• Extract readable content

  Remove layout and code noise while keeping article headings, paragraphs, lists, and link text for reading and archiving.

• Prepare plain content

  Output can be pasted into plain-text editors, emails, search boxes, data scripts, or content-review workflows.

• Keep useful context

  Optionally keep URLs and image alt text so plain-text conversion does not lose resource targets and image descriptions.

• Browser-side privacy

  HTML is converted in the current browser without uploading it to a text-conversion server. Follow your security policy for confidential source.

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