Email HTML
Newsletter and marketing emails paste as heavy markup with tables, styles, and tracking links.
Remove HTML Tags
Strip `<p>`, `<div>`, scripts, and styles from pasted markup to recover plain readable text—with optional entity decoding.
Remove HTML Tags
Extract visible text from HTML with control over links, scripts, and entities.
Paste or type HTML to convert to plain text.
Markup, snippets, or tagged paste
Visible text extraction
Your text stays in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Example
HTML snippet → Plain text
HTML input
<p>Hello <strong>World</strong></p> <a href="https://example.com">Read more</a>
Plain text (URLs extracted)
Hello World Read more (https://example.com)
How to Use
- Paste HTML from email, CMS exports, RSS feeds, or web scraping results.
- Choose extraction options — line breaks, entities, scripts, links, and alt text.
- Review live stats for tags removed, links found, and entities decoded.
- Copy or download readable plain text for analysis, search, or re-editing.
Common HTML Problems
WordPress copy
CMS editor exports include block comments, shortcodes, and inline formatting tags.
Web scraping
Scraped pages contain navigation, scripts, and layout markup mixed with article content.
RSS feeds
Feed descriptions often ship HTML-encoded summaries with entities and inline tags.
ChatGPT HTML output
AI tools may return formatted HTML snippets that need plain text for other apps.
AI training datasets
Raw HTML in datasets adds noise — visible-text extraction improves readability and NLP prep.
HTML Elements Explained
Paragraphs (<p>)
Block-level text containers — can become line breaks when keep line breaks is enabled.
Links (<a>)
Anchor text stays visible; enable Extract URLs to append href values in parentheses.
Strong tags (<strong>)
Emphasis markup is removed while the inner text content is preserved.
Images (<img>)
Alt text can be preserved as visible plain text when the option is enabled.
Scripts (<script>)
JavaScript blocks are stripped entirely — they never execute in this tool.
Styles (<style>)
CSS blocks are removed so stylesheet rules do not appear in plain text output.
Before and After Examples
| Element | HTML | Plain text |
|---|---|---|
| Paragraph | <p>Hello world</p> |
Hello world |
| Strong | <strong>Important</strong> |
Important |
| Link + URL | <a href="https://x.com">Visit</a> |
Visit (https://x.com) |
| Image alt | <img alt="Chart showing growth"> |
Chart showing growth |
| Entity | Tom & Jerry |
Tom & Jerry |
| Line break | Line 1<br>Line 2 |
Line 1 [newline] Line 2 |
Why HTML Tags Exist
HTML is a markup language for structure and presentation — not plain reading text. Tags tell browsers and email clients how to render content, which is why pasted HTML needs conversion for analysis and reuse.
Websites
Pages use HTML for headings, navigation, forms, and embedded media.
Emails
HTML emails rely on tables and inline styles for cross-client layout.
CMS exports
WordPress and other CMS tools store formatted content as HTML in the database.
RSS feeds
Syndication formats embed HTML descriptions inside XML item fields.
Web scraping
Extracted page HTML includes chrome, ads, and scripts alongside main content.
HTML Entities Guide
Entities encode special characters in HTML. Enable Decode HTML entities to convert them into readable Unicode characters.
| Entity | Displays as | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
& |
& |
Ampersand character |
< |
< |
Less-than sign (tag delimiter) |
> |
> |
Greater-than sign (tag delimiter) |
" |
" |
Double quotation mark |
|
Non-breaking space | Prevents line break between words |
Notes & Limitations
- This tool uses pattern-based HTML extraction — complex nested markup may need manual review.
- Scripts and styles are removed as text — they never execute in your browser.
- For full text normalization after conversion, use Plain Text Converter.
- Extract URLs appends href values after link text in parentheses.
- All processing runs locally in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Popular Workflows
Frequently Asked Questions
What does this tool do?
It converts HTML markup into readable plain text by removing tags, optionally decoding entities, stripping scripts and styles, and extracting visible content like link text and image alt attributes.
Are link URLs kept?
Link anchor text is preserved by default. Enable Extract URLs to append the href value in parentheses after the visible link text.
Does it remove script content safely?
Yes. Script blocks are removed as plain text and never executed. This tool runs entirely client-side with no code execution from your HTML input.
Should I decode HTML entities?
Enable decoding when you want & to become &, to become a space, and numeric entities like © to become ©.
Can I keep paragraph line breaks?
Yes. Keep line breaks converts block elements like <p>, <div>, and <br> into newline characters in the plain text output.
Will malformed HTML break the tool?
The tool uses pattern-based tag removal that handles common broken markup. Extremely malformed HTML may leave stray characters that need manual cleanup.
Does it work with email HTML?
Yes. Email HTML with tables, inline styles, and tracking links is a common use case. Enable remove script/style tags and extract URLs as needed.
Can it clean ChatGPT HTML output?
Yes. AI-generated HTML snippets can be pasted and converted to plain text for documents, spreadsheets, or CMS fields that do not accept markup.
What about image alt text?
When Preserve image alt text is enabled, the alt attribute value from <img> tags appears in the plain text output.
Is my HTML uploaded to a server?
No. All HTML-to-text conversion runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Your content never leaves your device.