HTML to Text
Paste HTML from a page, an email or a CMS export and get clean, readable text back. Block elements become paragraph breaks, list items become plain lines, scripts and styles are dropped entirely, and HTML entities like "&" are decoded — all processed locally in milliseconds.
- Tags stripped, text kept
- Paragraphs become blank lines
- List items get plain markers
- Scripts and styles removed
- Entities decoded
Overview
Everything runs in your browser — your text is never uploaded.
How to use this tool
- 1Paste the HTML source.
- 2The readable text appears instantly.
- 3Copy the plain-text result.
Examples
Article snippet
<h2>Title</h2><p>Body & more.</p>
Result
Title Body & more.
Email list
<ul><li>Milk</li><li>Eggs</li></ul>
Result
- Milk - Eggs
Limitations
- Visual layout from CSS is not reproduced — only the HTML structure matters.
- Text inside images, canvas or custom embeds does not exist as HTML text and cannot be extracted.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are scripts and styles included?
No — they are removed together with their contents, since they are not readable text.
What happens to links?
Link text is kept; the URL is dropped, because a plain-text rendering only needs the words.
Can it handle a full web page?
Yes for the readable content — paste the source and the body text comes out. Head, script and style blocks are discarded.