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HTML to Text Converter

This HTML to text converter strips a page down to its readable content. Tags are removed, script and style bodies are dropped rather than emitted as text, HTML entities such as & and ' are decoded back to real characters, and block-level elements and line breaks become newlines so paragraphs stay apart instead of running into one another. That last part is what separates a usable result from a wall of jammed-together words. Use it to get plain content out of an email, a scraped page, a CMS field or an export that arrived as markup when you wanted text.

How it works

Reduces a page to the words a reader would see. Script and style bodies are dropped rather than emitted as text, entities such as &amp; and &#39; are decoded, and <br> and block-level elements become line breaks so paragraphs stay apart.

This is the tool for getting readable content out of an email, a scraped page or a CMS field — not for stripping specific tags, which the HTML tag stripper does.

Everything runs in your browser — nothing you paste is sent to a server.

HTML input
Paste HTML here…
Plain text

How to convert HTML to text

  1. Paste the markup — a page, an email body or a CMS field — into the input on the left.
  2. Decide whether to keep paragraph breaks or collapse everything into one run.
  3. Copy the plain text, or download it as a .txt file.

Why paragraph breaks matter

Stripping tags naively gives you a wall of jammed-together words: <h1>Title</h1><p>Hello becomes TitleHello. Block-level elements are the only thing in the markup telling you where one thought ends and the next begins, so each one becomes a line break here. Runs of blank lines are then collapsed, which keeps the result readable rather than sparse.

Scripts and styles are dropped, not printed

A page's <script> and <style> blocks contain code, not prose. A tag-removing regex would leave their entire contents sitting in the output as text. Both are recognised as raw-text elements and discarded whole.

Entities are decoded

&amp; becomes an ampersand, &#39; becomes an apostrophe, and non-breaking spaces become ordinary ones. Without that step the output would still be full of escape sequences.

Common use cases

  • Getting readable content out of an HTML email.
  • Turning a rich-text CMS field into a plain-text summary.
  • Counting words on a page, or feeding its content to another tool.

Frequently asked questions

How do I convert HTML to text?

Paste the markup into the left panel. The plain text appears on the right immediately, ready to copy or download.

Are paragraph breaks kept?

Yes, by default. Block-level elements and <br> become newlines, so paragraphs, list items and table rows stay on separate lines. Untick the option to get one continuous run of text instead.

What happens to scripts and styles?

Their contents are dropped entirely. They are code rather than prose, so emitting them as text would only add noise.

Are HTML entities decoded?

Yes. Named entities like &amp; and numeric ones like &#39; become the characters they stand for, and non-breaking spaces become ordinary ones.

How is this different from the tag stripper?

This tool always produces plain text. The tag stripper lets you choose which tags to remove and which to keep, so it can produce simplified HTML rather than text.

Is my content uploaded?

No. Everything runs in your browser.

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