HTML to text

Client

Pull visible copy from snippets, newsletters, or scraped pages without sending HTML to a server. For entity encoding or minified markup, use HTML entities or compress & minify.

What this does

Paste HTML and read back the visible text—script, style, and noscript nodes are removed first. Extraction uses your browser DOM, not a server-side crawler.

HTML → text

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Parses HTML in your browser, drops script, style, and noscript, then reads visible text. Not a full readability engine—pair with word count after extraction.

HTML

Plain text

Nearby workflows on Toolcore

  • Word count — after you have plain text for length and reading-time stats.
  • HTML entities — when you need to encode or decode & and similar escapes.
  • Compress & minify — to shrink HTML before archiving or embedding.

Common use cases

  • Extract article body text from saved HTML before pasting into notes or tickets.
  • Strip boilerplate from email HTML exports while keeping paragraph breaks.
  • Get a quick plain-text preview of a landing page snippet for copy review.
  • Feed cleaned text into word count after removing navigation chrome.

Common mistakes to avoid

  • Expecting perfect layout preservation

    This tool outputs text, not markdown or tables. Complex layouts may need manual cleanup.

  • Pasting untrusted HTML with active content

    Scripts are removed from output but parsing still runs locally—avoid pasting hostile files you do not trust.

  • Using this as a security sanitizer

    Do not rely on text extraction alone before rendering user HTML elsewhere—sanitize on the server.

FAQ

Is HTML uploaded?

No. Parsing uses the browser DOM in your tab.

Are links kept in the text?

Link labels appear as visible text; URLs in attributes are not appended unless shown in the page copy.

How is this different from markdown preview?

Markdown preview renders markdown to HTML. This page strips HTML down to plain text.

Common search terms

Phrases people search for that match this tool. See the full long-tail keyword index.

  • html to text online strip tags
  • convert html to plain text browser
  • extract text from html no upload
  • remove html tags get visible text

More tools

Related utilities you can open in another tab—mostly client-side.