Free Online HTML to Text

1. Paste HTML markup into the input box.
2. Read the stripped plain text in the output box as it updates.
3. Block elements become line breaks; inline tags are removed.
4. Copy the result to use in an email, document or index.

HTML separates content from presentation: the words live in text nodes while tags describe structure. Converting to plain text walks that structure — defined by the WHATWG HTML Living Standard's content model — and keeps the text while discarding the markup. Block-level elements (p, div, h1–h6, li, br) are treated as line boundaries; inline elements (span, a, strong) are simply unwrapped.

This tool also decodes character references, so & becomes & and ' becomes an apostrophe, matching the named entities catalogued in the HTML spec. The result reads like prose rather than a tag soup, with paragraphs preserved as separate lines.

It is the right tool when you need the plain-text alternative part of a multipart email, when indexing page content for search, or when extracting copy from a scraped page for analysis. Conversion runs locally in your browser, so the markup you paste never leaves your device.