Convert HTML to clean plain text by removing tags and preserving readable content. Fast, free, and built for simple browser-based workflows.
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HTML to Text is a free online tool that strips HTML tags from a block of markup, leaving the underlying text content behind. Paste HTML code, click Strip HTML, and get back the same text with every tag removed and HTML entities decoded to their normal characters.
It's useful when you've copied a chunk of markup from a browser's "View Source" or an email's HTML version and want just the words, when a CMS or template file has embedded HTML you need to read as plain content, or when you're preparing text for a plain-text email or a system that can't render HTML formatting. Cleaning it by hand means deleting every tag one at a time; this does it in a single pass.
Everything runs inside your browser using the browser's own HTML parser, so nothing you paste is sent to a server, and any script tags in the markup are read as text only -- never executed. That matters if the HTML comes from an untrusted source or an internal draft you would rather not upload elsewhere. The plain text result stays on your device unless you choose to copy or download it.
Drop markup, copied web content, or an email's HTML source into the HTML Input box.
Every tag is removed using the browser's own parser, leaving just the text.
The plain text appears in the Plain Text Result box below.
Use Copy for the clipboard or Download to save it as a .txt file. Clear resets both boxes.
Yes! All our tools are 100% free to use with no hidden costs, no registration required, and no credit card needed.
Absolutely. All tools run entirely in your browser (client-side). Your data never leaves your device and is not sent to our servers.
Yes, once the page is loaded, the tool will continue to work even if you lose internet connection since it runs in your browser.
There is no strict character limit, but very large amounts of text (100,000+ characters) may slow down your browser.
Yes! All our tools are free for both personal and commercial use.
Not automatically -- since it extracts raw text content, text from separate paragraphs or list items can end up running together with no space between them. If the output looks squished, that's expected; you may need to add line breaks back in manually where they matter.
Not always. The tool reads the text nodes inside your markup, and browsers treat the contents of script and style tags as text too, so JavaScript or CSS source code can appear mixed into the output instead of being cleanly stripped out. Remove those sections from your HTML first if that happens.
Just the visible text. A link like "Read more" pointing to a URL keeps the words "Read more" in the result, but the actual web address is discarded since only the visible text content is extracted, not the underlying HTML attributes.
Yes. The conversion uses the browser's built-in HTML parser to read the markup as data, not as a live web page, so any script tags inside it are never executed -- they're only read as text, the same limitation described above for script content appearing in results.
Yes. Since the browser's real HTML parser processes the markup, entities decode to their actual characters automatically -- an ampersand code becomes a plain ampersand, and a non-breaking space code becomes a normal space, the same way a browser would display them on a real page.
Yes -- paste a complete document and the tool still extracts the visible body text correctly, since it parses the whole thing as an HTML document first. Content inside the head section, like the page title or meta tags, isn't part of the visible body and won't appear in the result.