HTML to Text Converter

This tool strips the tags and markup out of HTML to leave clean, readable plain text. HTML is full of angle-bracket tags, attributes and entities that structure and style a page but get in the way when you just want the words. Copying text out of a web page, an email or a content management system often drags along a tangle of markup, and pasting it elsewhere brings unwanted formatting. Removing it by hand is tedious, especially for long passages. This converter does it instantly. You paste your HTML, and the calculator removes the tags, converts HTML entities such as ampersand codes back into their real characters, tidies up the whitespace, and returns the plain text underneath. The result updates as you type and runs entirely in your browser, so nothing is uploaded. Use it to extract readable content from a web page or email, to clean up text before pasting it somewhere plain, to get a word count of the actual content, or for development when you need the text without the markup. The tool also collapses runs of blank space and line breaks that the tags leave behind, so the output reads naturally rather than being riddled with gaps. It handles the common entities, turning codes like the ones for ampersands, angle brackets and non-breaking spaces back into the characters they represent, and it strips script and style blocks so their contents do not leak into the text. The result is the human-readable content of the HTML, ready to copy. A note: this extracts text only, discarding all formatting, links and images, which is exactly the point when you want clean plain text, but means structure like headings and lists becomes ordinary lines.

Removes tags, decodes entities and tidies whitespace, including stripping script and style blocks. Discards formatting, links and images. Runs entirely in your browser.