Markdown & HTML Tools

HTML to Plain Text Converter

Paste HTML and extract clean, readable plain text. Preserves the logical structure of headings, paragraphs, and list items while stripping all tags, ideal for copying content out of web pages.

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All conversion happens in your browser; your text is never sent to a server

Features

  • Strips all HTML tags cleanly
  • Preserves paragraph spacing with blank lines
  • List items retain their content
  • Links show URL in parentheses (optional)
  • Handles malformed or partial HTML
  • Browser-only

How to use it

  1. Paste your HTML into the input panel.
  2. Plain text extraction runs automatically.
  3. Copy the output or download as .txt.

Use cases

  • Extracting readable content from HTML emails
  • Cleaning copied web page text of HTML markup
  • Preparing HTML documentation as plain text for archival
  • Getting searchable text from HTML for analysis

Limitations

  • Table content is linearised, columns become rows in reading order.
  • Images are replaced with their alt text if present.
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Questions & answers

Frequently asked

Does it remove script and style content?

Yes. <script> and <style> element contents are removed along with their tags.