HTML to Text

Q: Does it preserve paragraph breaks?

Block-level elements - paragraphs, divs, headings - become line breaks in the output, and lists keep their spacing. The text doesn't collapse into one wall.

Q: Does it decode HTML entities?

Entities like &amp;, &lt;, &gt;, and numeric ones such as &#169; all decode to readable characters.

Q: Can I use this for web scraping cleanup?

That's one of its most common jobs. Scrapers pull raw HTML; this extracts just the text content you need for analysis or processing.

Q: Why not just use the browser's copy-paste?

Copy-paste from browsers often brings hidden formatting, non-breaking spaces and invisible elements that can cause issues in databases and text editors. This tool gives you genuinely clean text.

Q: Does it handle complex nested HTML?

Nested elements process recursively, so deeply structured documents come out fine. Heavily nested tables are the one case worth checking - their visual order can get lost.

Strip HTML tags and extract plain text from HTML code.

Scraped pages, old newsletters, CMS exports - sometimes you have a block of HTML and only want the words inside it. The converter strips the tags, drops script and style blocks entirely, decodes entities like & back into readable characters, and keeps paragraph and list structure so the result still reads like a document.

What Gets Removed

All HTML tags (div, span, p, a, img, table, etc.)
Inline CSS styles and style blocks
JavaScript code within script tags
HTML comments
Data attributes and class names

What Gets Preserved

All visible text content
Line breaks from block elements (paragraphs, headings, divs)
List item formatting with proper spacing
Decoded HTML entities (& becomes &, < becomes <,   becomes a space)

Why Not Just Copy and Paste?

If you copy text directly from a web page, you often get hidden formatting, non-breaking spaces and structural elements that cause problems in text editors or databases. This tool strips everything cleanly. What you get is pure text with no hidden characters lurking underneath.

Common Use Cases

Extracting content from web scraping results for analysis
Creating plain text versions of HTML emails for accessibility
Cleaning up scraped data before importing into spreadsheets or databases
Reviewing what search engines actually see when they index your page
Preparing clean text to feed into AI tools for summarization

Before You Use The Output

Give the result a quick scan before you paste it somewhere important. Navigation menus, footer links and cookie text can appear in scraped HTML even when you only wanted the article body. Remove anything that does not belong, then check line breaks so headings, bullet points and paragraphs still make sense.

How to Use

Paste your HTML code in the input area.
Clean plain text appears instantly in the output.
Copy the extracted text.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does it preserve paragraph breaks?