HTML to Text Converter

Free HTML to text converter. Strip HTML tags and convert markup to clean plain text, preserving line breaks between block elements and decoding common entities.

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Paste your HTML above.

How html to text converter works

HTML to text conversion removes the markup and keeps only the visible text. Block-level elements like paragraphs, headings, and list items should become separate lines so the text still reads in a sensible order, and HTML entities like & should become their plain characters (&).

This converter removes <script> and <style> blocks entirely (since they are not visible text), turns block-level closing tags and <br> into line breaks, strips all remaining tags, and decodes common entities (&nbsp;, &, <, >, ", &#39;). Runs of blank lines are collapsed and each line is trimmed.

Paste your HTML and click Convert. The tool returns the plain text with sensible line breaks. Use it to extract readable text from a web page, clean an HTML email into a plain-text version, or feed text into a tool that expects plain input.

Frequently asked questions

Does it remove script and style content?
Yes. Anything inside <script> or <style> is removed entirely, because it is not visible page text. Only the rendered text content is returned.
How are line breaks handled?
Block-level elements (p, div, headings, li, table rows, and others) and <br> tags become line breaks, so paragraphs stay separate. Runs of blank lines are collapsed.
Are HTML entities decoded?
Yes. Common entities (&, <, >, ", &#39;, &nbsp;) are converted to their plain characters (&, <, >, ", ', space).
Is the output safe to display?
Yes. The output is plain text with no tags, so it cannot carry markup or scripts. If you then put it back into HTML, escape it again, since decoded characters like < and & would be re-interpreted.