HTML to Plain Text
Strip HTML tags and get clean text, in your browser.
.pdf · up to 2 GB
What it's for
HTML to clean text without tags
Compatible with any system
The resulting plain text works in any editor, email, database, or analysis tool regardless of the HTML source.
100% private
Processing happens in your browser. Your HTML is never sent to any server. Safe for confidential content.
Genuinely clean text
No residual tags, no attributes, no scripts. Just the text a user would see in a browser.
Instant
Conversion happens in real time as you paste or type. No waiting, no server processing.
How it works
Three steps, no hassle
Paste your HTML
Paste any HTML snippet or full document into the editor. Never uploaded to any server.
Instant conversion
Tags, scripts, styles, and attributes are stripped instantly. Visible text content remains clean.
Copy clean text
Copy the result with one click to use in email, documents, or any system that doesn't process HTML.
FAQ
Got questions?
All HTML tags (such as <p>, <div>, <span>, <a>), their attributes, <script> blocks, <style> blocks, and HTML comments are removed. What remains is only the visible text content.
Text content is preserved, along with list markers (such as hyphens for <li>), and line breaks between block elements like paragraphs, headings, and divs. HTML entities like &, <, and are decoded to their corresponding characters.
It's useful for: creating the plain-text version of an HTML email (required by RFC 2046), improving accessibility for screen readers, counting real word count without tag noise, and extracting text from web pages for analysis or content migration.
The browser's innerText property only works with elements already rendered in the DOM. This tool processes raw HTML strings directly, without rendering the page, making it ideal for processing HTML outside of a browser context.
Yes. Entities like & become &, < becomes <, > becomes >, " becomes ", becomes a normal space, and other named and numeric entities are correctly decoded to their corresponding Unicode characters.
HTML to plain text for email, accessibility, and content migration
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) has been the markup language of the web since 1991. While essential for rendering pages in browsers, raw HTML code is hard for humans to read and cannot be used directly in systems that expect plain text. Converting HTML to plain text is a common operation in content workflows, email marketing, and accessibility.
The RFC 2046 MIME email standard specifies that HTML-format messages must also include a plain-text version (multipart/alternative). Email clients that don't render HTML, spam filters, and screen readers all depend on this text version. Generating it manually is tedious; automatically converting the existing HTML is far more efficient.
For screen readers and assistive technology, well-structured plain text is more accessible than complex HTML. In content migrations between CMS systems, database exports, and NLP analysis, the first step is usually stripping all HTML markup to work with pure content. Convertir.ai handles this step directly in the browser, without sending data to external servers.