How to Convert HTML to Text

Step 1

Input HTML Code

Paste your HTML code into the input area. You can also use our HTML editor to prepare your HTML first, or convert from Word to HTML.

Example: HTML Input

HTML with tags:

<div><h1>Welcome</h1><p>This is a <strong>sample</strong> paragraph.</p></div>

Extracted plain text:

Welcome This is a sample paragraph.

Step 2

View Extracted Text

All HTML tags are automatically stripped, showing only plain text content. You can also convert to other formats using HTML to Markdown or HTML to JSON.

Step 3

Copy or Download Text

Copy the extracted text or download it as a plain text (.txt) file for use in applications or documentation. Before extracting, you can validate your HTML using our HTML validator.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does HTML to text conversion do?

It removes all HTML tags and extracts only the text content from HTML documents, giving you clean, plain text without any markup.

When is HTML to text conversion useful?

It's useful for content extraction, email processing, data analysis, web scraping, and when you need plain text from HTML documents. You can also extract tables using our HTML to table converter or view HTML with our HTML viewer.