HTML To Text
Convert HTML to plain text quickly. Paste your markup, strip tags safely, and copy the readable text output for notes and content cleanup.
HTML To Text
SIMILAR TOOLS
What this does
So you have got HTML but you only want the words, no tags, no markup, just the readable text underneath. This strips it down. Paste your HTML, click Convert, and the tags come off, leaving the plain text to copy.
How to use it
- Paste your HTML into the box.
- Click Convert.
- Copy the plain text with the Copy button.
How it works
This one keeps it simple and does not use a library. It removes the HTML tags from your input, leaving behind the text that sat between them. What you get back is the readable content with the markup taken away. It runs in your browser, so the HTML you paste stays on your machine.
What to expect
This is a straightforward way to pull the text out of HTML, and for ordinary content it does just that. It is worth setting expectations on what it is not, though. It takes the tags off, it does not try to rebuild the layout, so the paragraph breaks and spacing of the original page may not carry over into the text. You get the words, not the formatting. If you need the text neatly laid out, you may want to tidy it up by hand afterwards.
Questions people ask
Does it keep my paragraphs and line breaks?
Not reliably. It removes the tags to give you the text, but it does not rebuild the original layout, so you may need to add spacing back yourself.
What is it good for?
Quickly pulling the readable text out of a chunk of HTML, for notes, a rough copy, or cleaning content down to plain words.
Does it change the words themselves?
No. It only removes the tags. The text between them is left as it was.
Is my HTML uploaded?
No. It runs in your browser, so nothing you paste is sent away.
References
- MDN Web Docs. Node: textContent property. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node/textContent
Sugam Baskota is a senior software engineer and Computer Science graduate from UT Arlington, with interests in user scripts, browser extensions, developer tooling, and productivity systems. He spends time building practical utilities and extensions in the kinds of workflows Eon is designed to simplify. At Eon Tools, he reviews useful, password, and developer tools.