HTML Link & Heading Extractor
About HTML Text Extractor
The HTML Text Extractor strips all HTML tags, script blocks, inline CSS styles, and comments from web pages, extracting clean, structured plain text with preserved paragraph breaks and list layouts.
How to Use HTML Text Extractor
Step 1
Paste your raw HTML document into the input editor.
Step 2
Review the clean extracted plain text in the output pane.
Step 3
Click "Copy Plain Text".
Practical Use Cases for HTML Text Extractor
Extracting Article Text from Scraped Web Pages
Strip HTML boilerplate (menus, sidebars, navigation) to extract clean prose text for reading, summaries, or AI LLM training.
Sanitizing Rich Text Editor Inputs
Convert clipboard HTML from Word, Google Docs, or websites into clean unformatted plain text.
Input & Output Examples
Extracting Plain Text from HTML
`<div><h1>Title</h1><p>RenderXD is <em>fast</em>.</p></div>`
`Title\n\nRenderXD is fast.`
Key Features & Performance
- ✓Strips all HTML tags while automatically decoding HTML entities (`&` $\\rightarrow$ `&`).
- ✓Removes `<script>`, `<style>`, `<noscript>`, and `<svg>` blocks automatically.
- ✓Preserves logical whitespace around block elements (`<p>`, `<div>`, `<li>`, `<h1>`-`<h6>`).
- ✓100% Client-Side memory execution.
- ✓1-Click Copy extracted text.
Key Terminology & Definitions
DOM Text Extraction
Traversing DOM nodes to aggregate `textContent` while respecting block vs inline element layout semantics.
HTML Entity Decoding
Converting character entity references (like `"`) into their corresponding Unicode character symbols (`"`).
