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Convert HTML markup into readable plain text instantly.
Use this HTML to Text converter to remove HTML markup and extract readable text content. It is useful for cleaning copied website content, reviewing HTML output without tags, simplifying snippets for notes, and turning markup into plain text for reuse in documents, chats, forms, or other non-HTML workflows.
Use this HTML to Text converter to remove HTML markup and extract readable text content. It is useful for cleaning copied website content, reviewing HTML output without tags, simplifying snippets for notes, and turning markup into plain text for reuse in documents, chats, forms, or other non-HTML workflows.
Use html to text when you need a fast browser-based result without extra setup. It works well for quick checks, one-off tasks, and routine formatting or calculation work.
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Input
<p>Hello <strong>world</strong></p>
Output
Hello world
Useful for stripping simple markup and keeping only readable text.
Input
<h1>Title</h1><p>First line</p>
Output
Title First line
Useful when extracting readable content from small HTML blocks.
Fix: Use HTML Decoder if the content contains entities like & or < and you need readable characters too.
Fix: Review the output because plain tag stripping may still need extra cleanup.
Fix: This tool extracts text, not visual page structure.
Fix: Plain-text extraction may simplify structure compared with rendered HTML.
Fix: Use HTML Encoder if the goal is escaping markup rather than extracting text.
It removes HTML tags and returns readable plain text.
No. HTML Decoder converts entities into characters, while HTML to Text removes markup tags.
Yes. That is one of the most common use cases.
Not always. It focuses on readable text extraction, not exact visual layout reproduction.
They are very close by intent. Both focus on removing markup and keeping readable text.