HTML to Text Converter
Convert HTML to plain text online for free: strip tags, keep headings, paragraphs, lists and tables readable, decode entities, and keep link URLs and image alt text. 100% in your browser, no signup.
Your plain text will appear here.
⚡ This converter turns HTML into readable plain text: headings and paragraphs on their own lines, lists with bullets or numbers, tables as tab-separated rows, and entities decoded. Script, style and head content is dropped, and the contents of pre blocks keep their line breaks. Everything runs locally in your browser, so it is safe for pages that are not published yet.
🔒 Privacy: conversion runs locally in your browser. Your HTML is never uploaded, stored or seen by anyone else.
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An HTML to text converter takes a web page or a snippet of markup and returns only the words a human would read, without the tags, scripts and styling around them. That is useful whenever the formatting gets in the way: pulling the text out of a copied web page for a document, cleaning HTML email into a plain note, checking what a search engine or a screen reader actually sees, or preparing content for a tool that only accepts plain text. Paste your HTML here, or upload an .html file, and the readable text appears instantly with character, word and line counts.
The converter is built around how a browser reads a page, not around deleting angle brackets. Block elements such as paragraphs, headings, divs and sections start on new lines, and paragraphs and headings are separated by a blank line, so the text keeps the shape of the original page. Unordered lists get bullet markers and ordered lists get numbers, with nested lists indented, and table rows land on new lines with their cells separated by tabs, so the result pastes cleanly into a spreadsheet or a document. Line breaks become real line breaks, and the contents of pre blocks keep their spacing exactly, because that spacing is part of the text.
Safety is part of the design: the input is treated as inert text, so scripts never run and nothing is fetched, and script, style and head content is dropped before any text is shown. HTML entities are decoded, so & becomes &, © becomes © and numeric entities become their real characters. Three options cover the common choices: show link URLs as "text (https://...)" so a printed copy still tells you where links point, keep image alt text as [alt text] so a picture's description survives, and uppercase headings for documents that need them. Your HTML never leaves your device, and the result can be copied or downloaded as a .txt file.