# HTML Email to Text Convert HTML email to readable plain text: strip tags, keep paragraphs and lists, render links inline or as footnotes, and optionally wrap lines. ## Run it - **CLI:** `gizza tool html-email-to-text '

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'` - **Web:** https://gizza.ai/tools/html-email-to-text/ - **Agents:** machine-readable descriptor (parameters JSON Schema) at https://gizza.ai/tools/html-email-to-text/tool.json ## Inputs - `html` — HTML email body _(field)_ - `links` — Links _(field)_ - `wrap` — Wrap width (columns, 0 = off) _(field)_ ## Output - Plain text (text) ## Query parameters Open the tool pre-filled and auto-run via URL: - `html` — HTML email body - `links` — Links - `wrap` — Wrap width (columns, 0 = off) Example: `https://gizza.ai/tools/html-email-to-text/?html=%3Ch1%3EWeekly%20update%3C%2Fh1%3E%3Cp%3ERead%20the%20%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fpost%22%3Elatest%20post%3C%2Fa%3E.%3C%2Fp%3E&links=inline&wrap=72` --- ## About this tool Marketing and transactional emails are usually sent as HTML, but you often need the **plain-text version** — the `text/plain` alternative part that non-HTML clients show, the copy you paste into a ticket, or a clean read of a newsletter without the layout. This tool takes an **HTML email body** (the whole `` document or just a `` fragment) and returns readable plain text: tags removed, HTML entities like `&` and ` ` decoded, and paragraphs, headings, and list items kept on their own lines. The email-specific part is how it treats **links** and **line width**: - **Links — Inline** (default): `click here` becomes `click here (https://example.com)`, so the destination survives in plain text. - **Links — Footnotes:** each link is numbered inline (`click here[1]`) and the URLs are collected into a `[1] https://example.com` reference block at the bottom — tidy for link-heavy newsletters. - **Links — Text only:** keeps just the visible link text and drops the URL. - **Wrap width:** set a column count (72 is the classic plain-text-email width) to hard-wrap long paragraphs on word boundaries. URLs and other long tokens are never split. Leave it at `0` for unwrapped output. `mailto:` and `tel:` links are shown without the scheme (`email us (hi@example.com)`), and in-page `#anchors`, `javascript:`, and `data:` links are dropped as noise. ### Worked example Input (`links` = Footnotes): ```html

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``` Output: ``` See the docs[1] and pricing[2]. [1] https://example.com/docs [2] https://example.com/pricing ``` Everything runs locally in your browser via WebAssembly — the email content is never uploaded, so it is safe to paste sensitive messages. ## FAQ
What's the difference between this and a plain "HTML to text" stripper? A bare stripper just removes tags and usually discards link URLs. This tool is aimed at emails: it keeps hyperlink destinations (inline or as numbered footnotes), can hard-wrap to the classic 72-column plain-text-email width, strips `mailto:`/`tel:` schemes, and drops in-page/`javascript:` links that add no value in plain text.
Should I paste the full HTML email or just the body? Either works. You can paste the entire `…` source (for example the "view source" of a message) or just the inner `` fragment. Surrounding ``, `