HTML to Text Converter

How to use

1. 1Paste your HTML into the input box, or press Load sample to try it with an example document.
2. 2Choose how links are handled (inline, a numbered list, or dropped) and how list items are marked.
3. 3Toggle line break preservation, blank line collapsing, and line trimming to match the output you want.
4. 4Read the cleaned plain text and the character, word, line, and link counts below it.
5. 5Press Copy text to copy the result, or Download .txt to save it as a plain text file.

About this tool

HTML to Text Converter turns any HTML, whether a full document or a loose fragment, into clean readable plain text. The common way people strip HTML is a quick regex that deletes everything between angle brackets, but that approach leaves entities like   and & behind, glues words together where block elements used to break the text, and keeps the contents of script and style blocks. This tool avoids all of that by parsing your input with the browser DOMParser, which builds an inert document: scripts in the pasted markup never execute and no network request is made for any URL inside it. The parsed node tree is then walked node by node to emit text with the structure a reader expects. Block elements such as paragraphs, headings, list items, table rows, and blockquotes each begin on their own line, and a blank line is placed between paragraphs and headings so the output reads like prose rather than one long run-on line. Line breaks become single newlines, horizontal rules become a divider line, and list items can be prefixed with a dash bullet, an ordered number, or no marker at all. HTML entities are decoded by the parser itself, so a copyright sign or a curly quote comes out as the real character instead of a leftover code. Links are flexible: keep them inline as text followed by the URL in parentheses, collect them into a numbered reference list at the end, or drop the URLs entirely when you only want the words. The contents of script, style, noscript, template, head, SVG, and embedded object elements are discarded, along with comments and the extra whitespace browsers collapse. A live stats panel shows the character, word, line, and link counts plus how much markup was removed, and you can turn off line break preservation to flatten everything to a single spaced line for counting or searching. Everything runs locally in your browser, so the HTML you paste and the text you get back never leave this page.

Free to use. Works in your browser. No signup, no login.