Convert HTML content to clean, readable plain text instantly. Extract text from HTML tags, decode HTML entities, and format content with customizable options for perfect text extraction from web pages, emails, or documents.
Our free online HTML to plain text converter helps you extract clean, readable text from HTML content by removing all markup tags and formatting while preserving the essential text structure. This tool is perfect for converting web pages to plain text, extracting content from HTML emails, processing scraped web data, or cleaning up formatted text for documentation.
The converter offers multiple formatting options including link handling, HTML entity decoding, and whitespace management to ensure your text output meets your specific needs. All processing happens instantly in your browser, ensuring your HTML content remains private and secure while providing fast, accurate text extraction results.
Enter or paste your HTML code into the input box. The tool supports full HTML documents, snippets, or email content.
Choose text formatting options, link handling preferences, and additional conversion settings to customize your output.
The tool converts your HTML instantly. Copy the clean plain text result or adjust settings as needed.
It strips all HTML tags and markup from your content and outputs clean, readable plain text — perfect for extracting content from web pages, emails, or documents while preserving structure like paragraphs and lists.
No. All conversion happens 100% in your browser. Your HTML, links, and data never leave your device — no tracking, no storage, no third-party access. Fully private and secure.
Nothing to install or register. Just open the page in any browser — desktop or mobile — and start converting instantly. No login, no ads, no paywalls.
You choose: remove links completely, show URLs in brackets (e.g., [https://example.com]), or keep only the visible link text. Customize based on your needs.
Yes — by default, it converts entities like &, <, and > into readable characters (&, <, >). Toggle this option off if you want to preserve them.
Absolutely. Toggle options to preserve line breaks, keep multiple spaces, trim extra whitespace, or remove empty lines — giving you full control over text formatting.
Yes. Unordered lists (<ul>) become bullet points (•), and ordered lists (<ol>) become numbered — making your plain text output easy to read.
Yes — no size limits. Convert small snippets or entire web pages. Optimized for speed and accuracy, even with complex, nested HTML structures.
Yes. Once loaded, all features work without internet. Ideal for secure environments or when processing sensitive HTML content locally.
Content writers, researchers, developers, email marketers, data scrapers, students — anyone who needs to extract clean text from HTML for readability, analysis, or documentation. Personal or commercial use.
Yes. Free for any use — no license or attribution required. Many teams use it to clean scraped data, process email templates, or prep content for CMS imports.
Contact us via support form. We welcome feedback — whether it’s adding Markdown output, preserving headings as ALLCAPS, or batch file processing.
Strip HTML tags to extract clean text. This page is designed to help you convert between formats with a clear browser-based workflow rather than making you install a separate utility for a small task.
Paste the source text, apply the transformation, inspect the changed text, and copy the result only after checking punctuation, spacing and meaning.
Choose the correct source format, check the output format, and review the converted result before using it in an important workflow. Automated text transformations can change formatting or context. Keep the source text when exact wording matters.
Expected: A result in the selected target format that opens correctly in the software or browser you plan to use. Avoid: Assuming every conversion preserves fonts, forms, transparency, animation or complex layout exactly.
Text transformations are easiest to trust when you can compare the result with a small sample first. Use Html To Plain Text Converter on representative text, confirm that punctuation, whitespace, markup or character encoding behaves the way you expect, and only then process larger blocks. Keep a copy of the source when wording or structure matters, because some transformations are intentionally destructive or difficult to reverse exactly. For structured text or markup, test the result in its destination as well so syntax and escaping still behave as intended.