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HTML to Plain Text

Strip all HTML tags from text instantly online. Removes scripts, styles, and tags while preserving readable text and paragraph structure. Free — runs entirely in your browser.

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HTML-to-text conversion extracts the readable content of an HTML document while discarding markup, attributes, scripts, styles, and comments. The goal is to recover the same text a user would see in a browser without the presentational layer. This differs from stripping tags with a regex — a naive approach that breaks on attributes containing angle brackets, leaves behind script code, and ignores the semantic block structure of the document.

The correct approach uses the browser's DOM parser to build a full parse tree, removes script and style elements before extraction, then walks the tree collecting text nodes. Block-level elements (p, div, h1–h6, li, br) contribute newlines to preserve the paragraph structure visible in the rendered page. This tool uses exactly this approach: it passes the input to DOMParser, removes non-visible elements, and extracts innerText, preserving meaningful whitespace.

Common applications include preparing web-scraped content for full-text search indexing, extracting readable text from HTML email templates for accessibility auditing, converting HTML documentation to plain text for terminal display, and stripping markup from CMS exports before importing to a different system. The output is suitable for downstream text processing that expects clean prose rather than structured markup.

Common Use Cases

Indexing web content for full-text search

Search engines and internal site search tools (Elasticsearch, Algolia, Meilisearch) index the visible text content of pages, not their HTML source. Crawlers extract HTML, then convert it to plain text before sending to the indexer. Removing script, style, navigation, and footer markup ensures only meaningful page content is indexed, improving search relevance and reducing noise from boilerplate elements.

Generating plain-text fallbacks for HTML emails

Well-formed email campaigns require a plain-text MIME part alongside the HTML body. Email clients like Outlook, ProtonMail, and Apple Mail display the plain-text version when HTML rendering is disabled or when the recipient has set a plain-text preference. Marketing platforms like Mailchimp auto-generate plain-text versions by stripping HTML, but manual extraction is needed when building custom transactional email systems.

Migrating content between CMS platforms

Content migrations between platforms (WordPress to Contentful, Drupal to Sanity, custom CMS to Strapi) often encounter HTML stored in rich text fields that needs to be converted to plain text or Markdown before import. Extracting clean text from HTML is the first step in a migration pipeline before re-formatting the content to match the target system's content model.

What Gets Stripped