HTML to Plain Text

How to use HTML to Text

1. Paste HTML source or choose a local .html or .htm file.
2. Select link, image, table, wrapping, blank-line, and trimming preferences.
3. Review the semantic plain text, then copy or download the result.

Supported behavior

HTML to Plain Text converts document structure into readable text rather than merely deleting angle-bracketed tags. Headings and paragraphs gain blank lines, br elements become newlines, list items receive bullet or number prefixes, and blockquotes use a greater-than marker. Links can include their destinations, images can contribute alt text, and tables can become tab-separated rows where the markup permits. Options also preserve table structure, wrap at a chosen column width, collapse excessive blank lines, and trim the result. Script, style, and template content is removed, while malformed HTML is handled on a best-effort basis through inert parsing. Output is always plain text and source markup is never executed or injected into the page. Your HTML and selected .html or .htm file remain in the browser and are never uploaded. CSS-driven layout, hidden state, and visual reading order may not be recoverable from markup alone, so complex pages can require manual cleanup.

• CSS layout and generated content are not available from static HTML source.
• Irregular or heavily nested tables may not map cleanly to tab-separated rows.

Examples

                <h2>Tasks</h2><ul><li>Read <a href="/guide">the guide</a></li><li>Ship</li></ul>
              

                <blockquote>First line<br>Second line</blockquote>
              

Common use cases

• Create a readable text alternative from an HTML email draft.
• Convert an article’s lists and links for a plain-text archive.
• Extract tab-separated rows from a simple HTML table.

Frequently asked questions