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HTML to Text

Convert HTML markup to plain text. Strip tags, extract readable content.

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Tool: html-to-text · /tools/html-to-text/

preserveParagraphs: true

What is this tool?

HTML to text converter strips all HTML tags and markup from content, extracting only the readable plain text. Handles common tags (p, div, span, br, li, table), decodes HTML entities, and preserves meaningful structure with line breaks. Useful for creating plain text versions of web content, email body extraction, and data cleaning.

How to use

  1. 1

    Paste HTML

    Input your HTML content.

  2. 2

    Convert

    Click to strip tags and extract text.

  3. 3

    Copy text

    Get clean plain text output.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does HTML to text handle tables?

Each row becomes its own line and cells are separated by a single space, so a table reads as one line of space-separated values per row. In paragraph mode rows are separated by a blank line; in single-line mode the whole table runs together with spaces. There are no tabs or pipe characters in the output, and nested tables flatten into the same line-based layout.

How are images handled?

Images are dropped. The converter reads only text content, so an img tag contributes nothing to the output, and its alt attribute is never extracted. Text before and after the image is simply joined, so an img in the middle of a word can make two fragments run together.

Can I use this in production?

This tool is designed for development and testing. For production use established libraries with security audits.

How do I convert HTML to plain text?

Parse the HTML and keep only text nodes, dropping tags, scripts and styles. Block elements (p, div, li, headings) become line breaks; table cells usually become tab- or pipe-separated. Browsers and libraries (jsdom, BeautifulSoup, DOMParser) implement this differently, so output spacing can vary between tools.

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