HTML to Text Converter

Strip HTML tags and decode entities to get clean text. This HTML to Text converter removes markup tags and decodes common HTML entities to extract readable plain text content.

Whether you call it html to text or strip html, this free tool handles it instantly in your browser.

HTML input

35 chars2 words

Plain textLive preview

Hello world

Ctrl+Enter to copy | Ctrl+Z to undo

Example usage

Example input

<p>Hello <strong>world</strong></p>

Example output

Hello world

Batch Processing

Enter multiple inputs, one per line. Each line will be processed separately.

Input (one per line)

Results

Why this tool?

Everything runs right in your browser — no uploads, no sign-up, no waiting. Your text never leaves your device.

Quick tips

•Outputs update live as you type.
•Use the sticky copy button to grab results quickly.
•Bookmark this page for fast access.

How it works

Tags are removed while text content stays intact.
Common HTML entities are decoded.
Whitespace is normalized for readability.

Use cases

Prepare HTML emails for plain text.

Copy web content without markup.

Clean CMS exports.

Getting plain text out of markup

Copying from a web page usually brings the formatting along — fonts, colors, and hidden structure that fights whatever you paste it into. Working from the HTML source instead and stripping the tags gives you the words alone. This converter removes the markup and returns readable text, which is what you want when a CMS field, an email client, or a plain-text editor is the destination.

The most common real trigger is content migration: you have an old page, you need its text in a new system, and pasting the rendered version drags in styling that then has to be scrubbed by hand from every paragraph.

What is lost, and what to check afterwards

Stripping tags necessarily discards structure. Headings stop being headings, links lose their destinations (the anchor text survives, the URL does not), lists lose their bullets, and images vanish along with their alt text. If those matter, extract them before converting — a link-heavy page is often worth copying twice, once for text and once for the URLs.

Two artifacts to watch for. HTML entities like &,  , and ' may survive as literal text if the source was double-encoded; a quick pass with Find and Replace clears them. And HTML collapses whitespace when rendering, so source indentation can arrive as runs of spaces and line breaks in your output — Remove Extra Spaces and Text Cleaner tidy that up.

Cleanup