HTML to Text Converter
Convert HTML to readable plain text — paragraphs, headings and lists keep their structure, scripts and styles are dropped. Free and private.
About the HTML to Text Converter
Paste HTML markup — a page source, an email body, a CMS export — and this converter returns clean, readable plain text. Unlike a crude tag-stripper, it parses the markup with a real HTML parser and rebuilds the document's structure: paragraphs and headings are separated by blank lines, list items become bulleted lines, line breaks are honored, and table cells are tab-separated.
Scripts, styles and other non-content markup are removed entirely (including their contents, so you don't get JavaScript soup in your text), and HTML entities like & and are decoded to real characters. An option appends each link's URL in parentheses after its anchor text, preserving references the way plain-text email versions traditionally do.
The result is ready for word processors, plain-text emails, notes apps, translation tools or text analysis. Conversion runs entirely in your browser — paste, copy or download as .txt, and nothing is uploaded anywhere.
How to Use the HTML to Text Converter
- 1Paste your HTML into the input box.
- 2Choose whether to append link URLs in parentheses after anchor text.
- 3Review the structured plain text output.
- 4Copy it or download it as a .txt file.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from just removing the tags?
Naive tag removal glues everything into one blob and leaks script code and CSS into your text. This tool parses the HTML like a browser does: block elements produce paragraph breaks, list items get bullets, scripts and styles are discarded with their contents, and entities are decoded — so the output reads like a document, not debris.
What happens to links in the HTML?
The anchor text always survives. With the link option enabled, the URL follows in parentheses — 'read the docs (https://example.com/docs)' — the convention used in plain-text email alternatives. Anchor links (#section) and javascript: links are skipped as noise.
Are HTML entities like & and converted?
Yes — the parser decodes all entities to their real characters: & becomes &, becomes a space, © becomes the copyright sign, and numeric entities resolve too. That's a major advantage of parsing over regex stripping.
Can I convert a whole web page?
Yes — view the page source (Ctrl+U in most browsers), copy it all and paste it here. Everything in the body renders as text; navigation and footer content will be included as text too, so trim what you don't need afterwards. Very large pages convert fine since the work is local.
Is my HTML uploaded anywhere?
No. Parsing uses your browser's built-in DOM parser on your device — nothing is transmitted or stored, so private emails and internal pages are safe to convert.