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Strip HTML tags and convert HTML to clean plain text

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Extracting Content with the HTML to Plain Text Converter

  1. Paste your HTML - page source, an email template, or scraped markup - into the input.
  2. Tick or untick the option toggles: Preserve line breaks, Keep link text, Decode entities.
  3. Watch the plain text output update live as you change options.
  4. Copy the result or download it as a .txt file.

HTML to Plain Text Converter: strip noisy tags and extract readable copy from web source code instantly. This html tag stripper removes scripts, styles, and markup while intelligently preserving paragraph breaks and lists. It is an essential tool for content extraction, allowing you to turn messy HTML into a clean plain text converter output suitable for documentation or analysis.

How the HTML Tag Stripper Processes Markup

The converter uses a secure browser-side DOM parser to identify visible text while filtering out structural code. By decoding HTML entities and managing block-level spacing, this extract text from html utility ensures the final result remains readable and well-formatted. Use this free online tool to clean up scraped data or simplify web content into a format that works across any text editor.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will it keep paragraph breaks from the original HTML?

Yes - leave "Preserve line breaks" ticked and the converter inserts real newlines wherever it finds <br>, <p>, <div>, <h1>–<h6>, <li> or <tr>. Untick the option to flatten everything into a single line.

What happens to link URLs?

By default the visible link text is kept and the URL is dropped - that's usually what you want for reading. Untick "Keep link text" to remove anchors entirely. The tool doesn't append URLs in brackets like some converters do.

Does it decode HTML entities like &nbsp; and &rsquo;?

Yes - the converter parses the HTML using the browser's own DOM, so all named entities (&copy;, &mdash;, &nbsp;) and numeric entities (&#8217;) are decoded into their actual characters automatically when "Decode entities" is ticked.

Can I extract text from a whole web page I copied?

Yes - paste the page source (View Source in your browser, then copy). Scripts, styles and HTML comments are stripped along with the tags, so the output is just the visible content. <pre> and <code> contents are kept verbatim.

Streamline your workflow by using this HTML to Plain Text Converter to prep web content for your next project.

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