HTML to Plain Text

Remove HTML tags and return visible text content. Useful when cleaning pasted markup, email HTML, or scraped pages.

  • Runs entirely in your browser
  • No data stored or sent to a server
  • Free forever — no signup
  • Instant conversion

Input and Output

Use the interactive encoder and decoder on this page to process your text.

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How to Strip HTML Tags to Plain Text

HTML to Text

When to Strip HTML

Extract readable text from email HTML, scraped pages, or CMS exports before diffing, indexing, or feeding content into plain-text pipelines. Removes tags while preserving visible text content.

What Is Preserved

Text nodes are concatenated in document order. Scripts and styles are not executed — the browser parses markup locally and returns textContent for debugging and cleanup workflows.

Developer Tips

  • Block-level tags may collapse whitespace — normalize if you need paragraph breaks
  • For structured extraction prefer dedicated parsers when you need tables or lists preserved
  • Sanitize untrusted HTML before processing in production systems

Frequently asked questions

Does this preserve links?

Link text is kept but URLs in attributes are not included unless visible as text.

Is this the same as HTML entity decoding?

No. Entity decoding converts & codes; strip tags removes markup structure.