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HTML to Plain Text Converter

Instantly strip HTML tags and convert any HTML document to clean, readable plain text. Handles all HTML entities, preserves structure, and keeps your data 100% private — everything runs in your browser.

HTML Input

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Plain Text Output

Why Convert HTML to Plain Text?

HTML is designed for browsers to render visually. When you need the raw readable content — for emails, data pipelines, SEO analysis, or document editing — you need the plain text underneath. This tool extracts it cleanly, safely, and instantly.

  • Content marketers — clean scraped content before importing into CMS platforms.
  • Email marketers — generate plain-text versions of HTML newsletters.
  • SEO specialists — extract visible text from pages for keyword analysis.
  • Developers — strip HTML from API responses, logs, or template outputs.
  • Data scientists — prepare HTML datasets for NLP and machine learning.
  • Writers & editors — convert HTML drafts to clean text for editing.

🔒 Built with Security in Mind

Pasting untrusted HTML is a potential risk. Our converter is designed from the ground up to prevent any malicious code from executing:

🚫 Scripts removed

<script>, <noscript>, <iframe>, <embed>, and <object> are stripped before any text is read.

🚫 Event handlers scrubbed

All on* attributes (onclick, onload, onerror, etc.) are removed from every element.

🚫 Dangerous URIs blocked

javascript: and data: URIs in href and src attributes are sanitized automatically.

🛡️ Detached DOM parsing

HTML is parsed in a detached node never attached to the page — nothing renders or executes.

🔒 100% client-side

Your HTML never leaves your device. No server, no storage, no tracking.

🌐 Private network protection

The URL loader blocks requests to localhost and private IP ranges to prevent SSRF attacks.

How It Works

Unlike simple regex-based strippers, this tool uses the browser's own HTML parser for maximum accuracy and resilience against malformed markup:

  1. Your HTML is parsed into a detached DOM tree — the browser handles all edge cases and missing tags automatically.
  2. Dangerous elements (<script>, <style>, <iframe>, etc.) and dangerous attributes are stripped.
  3. Block elements receive trailing newlines to preserve paragraph structure.
  4. Optionally, <br> tags are converted to newlines, link URLs are appended inline, and list items receive bullet/number prefixes.
  5. textContent is read from the sanitized tree — this automatically decodes every HTML entity (&amp;, &nbsp;, &#8217;, etc.) natively.
  6. Optional cleanup: collapse extra spaces, collapse multiple blank lines, and trim the result.

Frequently Asked Questions

FAQ

Yes — 100% safe. All conversion happens inside your browser. Your HTML is never uploaded to any server. The tool uses a detached DOM node that is never attached to the visible page, so no scripts can execute, no network requests are triggered, and no CSS can affect the UI. All <script>, <style>, <iframe>, <embed>, on* event attributes, and javascript: / data: URIs are stripped before any text is extracted.

No. The tool specifically removes <script>, <noscript>, <iframe>, <object>, <embed>, <applet>, and <form> elements — along with all on* event handlers (like onclick, onload, onerror) — before extracting text. The browser's HTML parser is used, but the result is read as plain text only, so no code executes.

HTML entities are converted automatically using the browser's built-in HTML parser. This means &amp; becomes &, &lt; becomes <, &gt; becomes >, &nbsp; becomes a space, &#8217; becomes ', and so on. Both named and numeric (decimal and hex) entities are supported with zero extra code.

The tool uses the browser's forgiving HTML parser, which automatically closes missing tags, fixes nesting errors, and handles heavily broken markup. You will always get a best-effort plain text output — no errors or crashes.

Yes! Use the Load from URL feature. Enter the full URL (starting with https://) and click Load. The tool fetches the page HTML and loads it into the input area. Note: some websites block cross-origin requests (CORS policy). If you see a CORS error, copy and paste the page source manually instead.

When enabled, hyperlinks in the HTML are formatted as link text [https://url] in the output. This is useful when you want to preserve clickable references in a plain-text email or document. When disabled, only the visible link text is kept.

When enabled, unordered list items (<ul> <li>) are prefixed with • and ordered list items (<ol> <li>) are prefixed with 1., 2., 3. etc. This makes it easier to read lists in the plain text output. When disabled, list items are output as plain lines without any prefix.

Content marketers clean scraped web content before importing it into CMS platforms.
Developers strip HTML from API responses or email templates for logging or analytics.
SEO specialists extract visible text from competitor pages for keyword analysis.
Writers & editors convert HTML newsletters to plain text for editing.
Data scientists prepare HTML datasets for NLP or machine learning pipelines.