HTML to TXT Converter
Convert raw HTML markup code into clean unformatted plain text.
Document & Markup Converter
About HTML to TXT Converter
The HTML to Clean Plain Text Converter strips HTML tags (`<div>`, `<p>`, `<span>`, `<script>`, `<style>`), decodes HTML entities (`&`, `"`, `'`), and formats links and lists into readable plaintext.
How to Use HTML to TXT Converter
Step 1
Paste HTML markup into the input editor.
Step 2
Configure link formatting (append URL in parentheses or keep anchor text only).
Step 3
Inspect the cleaned plaintext in the output viewer.
Step 4
Click "Copy Text" or download as a .txt file.
Practical Use Cases for HTML to TXT Converter
Web Scraping & Natural Language Processing (NLP) Preprocessing
Clean raw scraped HTML web pages into pure text bodies for sentiment analysis, machine learning tokenization, and LLM embedding.
Extracting Plain Text from Rich HTML Emails
Strip HTML email newsletter bodies into readable text for archiving or terminal reading.
Input & Output Examples
Converting HTML Snippet to Plain Text
`<h1>Title</h1><p>Hello & welcome to <a href="https://example.com">Example</a>.</p>`
`Title\n\nHello & welcome to Example (https://example.com).`
Key Features & Performance
- ✓Strips all HTML tags while discarding hidden `<script>`, `<style>`, `<noscript>`, and `<svg>` nodes.
- ✓Decodes all standard named and numeric HTML entities (` ` $\rightarrow$ space, `©` $\rightarrow$ ©).
- ✓Preserves paragraph breaks, heading lines, and bulleted lists cleanly.
- ✓100% Client-Side DOMParser execution.
- ✓1-Click Copy or Download .txt file.
Key Terminology & Definitions
DOMParser API
A standard browser web API that parses XML or HTML source code from a string into a DOM Document in local memory.
HTML Entities
Special character sequences used in HTML to represent reserved characters and symbols (e.g. `<` for `<`).