HTML to Text
Strip tags to plain text.
Strip tags to plain text.
How to use HTML to Text
- Paste your HTML markup into the input box
- Let the tool strip out all the tags
- Copy the plain readable text that remains
About HTML to Text
HTML to Text takes a block of HTML markup and hands you back only the readable words. Paste in a saved web page, the source of an email, or the output from a rich-text editor, and every tag disappears — the bold and heading markup, the centering, the inline colors, the link syntax, and the stray angle brackets — leaving clean plain text you can drop into a document, a note, a spreadsheet cell, or a plain-text email.
The tool is built for the single job of stripping HTML down to text, which is the exact reverse of writing HTML: instead of adding tags to bold, center, or color your text, it takes all of that formatting back out. Block-level breaks between paragraphs and sections generally carry through, though fine spacing depends on how the original markup was written, so a quick tidy is sometimes worth it. Images and anything that is not text are dropped, since only the words survive.
There is no account, no sign-up, and no limit on how much you paste, whether it is a single tag-filled snippet or an entire page of source code. Everything runs entirely in your browser, so the markup you paste is processed on your own device and nothing is uploaded to a server — handy when the HTML holds content you would rather not send anywhere.
Frequently asked questions
- Is it free, and is there an account?
- Yes, it is free and there is no account or sign-up. There are no usage limits and nothing to install. Paste your HTML and copy the plain text back out.
- Is the HTML I paste sent anywhere?
- No. The tag stripping runs entirely in your browser, so your HTML is processed on your own device. Nothing is uploaded or stored, which is helpful when the markup contains content you would rather not share.
- How do I convert HTML to plain text?
- Paste your HTML into the input box. The tool removes the tags and leaves the text, which you can then copy and use anywhere plain text is needed. It works the same whether you paste a whole page or a small snippet.
- Is this an HTML to text editor?
- It is a converter rather than a WYSIWYG editor. You paste finished HTML and get the plain text out, instead of styling text and generating HTML. If you only want the words without any markup, this does that in one step.
- Does it keep paragraphs and line breaks?
- It focuses on giving you the readable text rather than rebuilding the layout. Block-level breaks between sections generally survive, but fine spacing depends on how the original HTML was written, so you may want to tidy the result slightly.
- What gets lost when the tags are removed?
- Only the text remains, so formatting like bold, headings, links, and colors is discarded, and images are dropped since they are not text. If you need those preserved, keep the original HTML alongside the plain-text version.
- Can I convert the HTML from an email into plain text?
- Yes. Paste the raw HTML source of the email and the tool strips the markup, leaving plain text you can reuse in a note or a plain-text reply. This is useful for cleaning up messages that were built with a lot of inline styling.
- How do I make text bold in HTML?
- This tool does the opposite — it removes bold markup — but to add it you wrap the words in <b> or <strong> tags, or apply CSS with font-weight: bold. When you later run that HTML through here, those bold tags are stripped and you are left with the plain words.
- How do I center text in HTML?
- To center text you use CSS, such as text-align: center on a block element like a paragraph or div; the old <center> tag still works in browsers but is deprecated. This converter does not center text — it strips that alignment out when it reduces the HTML to plain text.
- How do I change the color of text in HTML?
- You color text in HTML with inline CSS, for example <span style="color: red;">text</span>, or with a CSS class; the legacy <font color> tag is deprecated. This tool removes color markup rather than adding it, so the output is uncolored plain text.
- Does it work on a full web page's source code?
- Yes. You can paste an entire page of HTML source and it will strip all the tags, scripts styling, and structure down to the visible words. There is no length limit, so both short snippets and long pages work.