HTML to Plain Text
Turn HTML into clean, readable plain text. Keeps links, lists, tables and line breaks sensible and drops scripts and styles. Private, in your browser.
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Stays in your browserPlain text
Shortcuts: Ctrl+Enter run · Ctrl+Shift+C copy result · / search (use ⌘ on Mac)
Next steps
Done here? Use the Send to… menu on the result to carry it on to Word & Character Counter, Case Converter or Text Compare.
Free Online HTML to Plain Text
Paste a web page, an email or any HTML and get the readable words without the tags. Lists, tables and links are kept in a tidy form you can paste anywhere. It gives developers a quick browser-based way to solve a focused html to plain text task before moving the result into a project.
How to convert HTML to text
Paste your HTML on the left. The plain text appears on the right as you type. Use the options to choose how links and lists are written.
When to use it
Turn an HTML email into a text version, clean text copied from a web page, or extract the words from markup for a word count.
Common mistakes
- Text that is hidden with CSS is still included, because the tool reads the markup, not the finished page.
- Images are dropped; add the alt text to your HTML first if you need the descriptions.