What happens to HTML entities like & or ?

& becomes &, < becomes <, becomes a space. All standard HTML entities are decoded.

Does this work with malformed HTML?

Reasonably well. The parser is lenient and handles most real-world messy HTML.

Can I go the other direction — text to HTML?

Use the Text to HTML tool, which wraps paragraphs in tags and escapes special characters.

Data and text tool

HTML to TXT Converter

Strip HTML tags from any HTML snippet or file and extract clean plain text. Useful for content processing, text analysis, and cleaning scraped web data.

How to use HTML to TXT Converter

Developer tools guide for html to txt converter users.

HTML-to-text conversion is a common need: extracting readable content from scraped web pages, cleaning HTML email content, preparing text for NLP processing, or converting rich text editor output to plain strings.

This tool strips all HTML tags, decodes HTML entities (& → &, < → <), and optionally preserves line breaks from block elements like paragraphs and headings.

What this tool does

Removes HTML tags, decodes HTML entities, and extracts clean plain text from HTML input.

How to use it

Paste HTML into the input. Click Convert. The plain text output preserves line breaks from block elements. Copy or download the result.

Common uses

Cleaning scraped web data, extracting email body text, preparing content for word count or NLP analysis, converting CMS output to plain text.

Quick checklist

Script and style tag contents are removed entirely, not just the tags.
HTML entities (&, <, ) are decoded to their characters.
Block elements (p, h1-h6, div, br) become line breaks in the output.
Inline tags (span, strong, em) are removed with no spacing added.

Answers

HTML to TXT Converter FAQs

Are script and style contents removed?

Yes. The contents of