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HTML to Plain Text Converter Online

Strip all HTML tags from web page source code or HTML snippets and extract clean, readable plain text. Preserves paragraph structure by converting block elements to line breaks.

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When you scrape data from a website, or copy an article from a rich-text CMS, you are usually left with a massive block of unreadable <div> and <p> tags. If you just want the raw words for an AI training dataset or an NLP analysis script, This tool is built to instantly strip away all HTML markup.

Advanced Tag Stripping

A naive approach to removing HTML is just deleting everything between < and >. But that fails instantly if your text contains mathematical logic (like if x < y). This tool uses a sophisticated Document Object Model (DOM) parser. It injects your string into a secure, hidden browser element and safely extracts only the innerText, ensuring complex symbols remain perfectly intact.

Script and Style Isolation

A major problem with regex-based HTML strippers is that they leave behind the actual contents of the <script> and <style> tags, resulting in paragraphs of JavaScript logic mixed into your reading material. Because this tool uses DOM parsing, it intelligently ignores the non-visual contents of script and style blocks entirely.

Spacing and Layout Preservation

When stripping tags, structural elements like <br> (line breaks) and <p> (paragraphs) are critical for readability. The parser translates these structural tags into standard ASCII line-breaks ( ), ensuring your final plain-text document doesn't collapse into one unreadable, massive run-on sentence.

How to use HTML to Plain Text Converter

1

Paste your HTML content.

2

Click Convert.

3

Copy the extracted plain text.

Example Usage

Sample Input / Output

<p>Hello <strong>World</strong></p>

This shows a sample input and the format you can expect back from html to plain text converter.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are all HTML tags removed?

Yes, all HTML tags including scripts and styles are removed, leaving only visible text content.

Are line breaks preserved?

Block elements like <p>, <div>, and <br> are converted to newlines in the output.

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