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HTML to Text

Strip HTML tags and extract clean plain text from markup

About HTML to Text

HTML to Text lets you strip html tags and extract clean plain text from markup.

Category: Text.

Frequently asked questions

Does this preserve whitespace and newlines?

The tool uses the browser's DOMParser and reads innerText, which preserves the visual layout of block elements (headings, paragraphs, line breaks) as newlines, similar to how a user would copy-paste from a rendered webpage.

Are HTML entities decoded?

Yes. Entities like &, <, >, and   are decoded to their plain-text equivalents because the browser parser handles them before extracting the text.

What happens with script and style tags?

Script and style elements are removed before text extraction so that JavaScript code and CSS rules do not appear in the output.

Is any text lost during conversion?

Alt text from images, title attributes, and hidden elements may or may not appear depending on the browser's innerText implementation. The output reflects what a user would see and copy from a rendered page.

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