HTML to plain text converter
Paste page source or an HTML email and get clean text you can copy into a document or message, without scripts and styles.
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Processing and privacy: The result is calculated inside your browser and your data is not sent to any server.
How to use it
- Enter html code and mark list items with "- ".
- The result appears straight away and updates as you edit.
- Copy the result, or copy a link that keeps the same values to share it.
How it is calculated
Remove comments and script/style blocks, collapse whitespace, turn <br> into a new line, paragraphs and headings into a blank line and <li> into "- ", then drop the remaining tags and decode entities.
Example
Inputs: Mark list items with "- " = yes. Result: Result: Summer offer Get 20% off all orders & free delivery. - Valid until 30 June - Online only; Characters: 90.
<h1>Summer offer</h1> <p>Get <b>20% off</b> all orders & free delivery.</p> <ul><li>Valid until 30 June</li><li>Online only</li></ul>
Summer offer Get 20% off all orders & free delivery. - Valid until 30 June - Online only
Limits and caveats
- This is not a full HTML parser: a tag with ">" inside an attribute value may be cut wrongly.
- Whitespace inside <pre> is not preserved, and only common named entities are decoded.
Questions about this tool
Are scripts and styles removed?
Yes. The content of script, style, head and comments is removed entirely since it is not readable text.
What happens to links?
Only the link text stays. To keep the URL use the HTML to Markdown tool.
Are numeric entities decoded?
Yes, such as ا and A, plus common ones like &, and ".