HTML to Text
Paste HTML and get clean plain text — tags removed, paragraphs and lists preserved. Runs entirely in your browser, no upload, no sign-up.
HTML to text
Paste HTML and get clean, readable plain text back — every tag removed, but the paragraph and list structure kept. It runs locally in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
What it does
- Removes all HTML tags and attributes.
- Keeps paragraph breaks and puts list items on their own lines.
- Decodes HTML entities (
&→&,<→<, …). - Outputs plain text — no Markdown markers like
#or**(use the HTML-to-Markdown tool if you want Markdown).
Good for
- Pulling the readable text out of an email, a web page, or a CMS export.
- Getting a quick word count or a clean copy of an article body.
FAQ
Is my HTML uploaded?
No — the converter is compiled to WebAssembly and runs entirely in your browser tab.
Does it run scripts or fetch the page?
No. It only parses the HTML you paste.
What happens to links, images, and HTML entities?
The visible text of a link (click here) is kept while the surrounding tag and
its attributes are dropped. Entities are decoded to real characters —
&amp; becomes &, &lt; becomes < — so the output reads like the
rendered page, not the source.
Why does the output have fewer blank lines than the page?
The converter tidies the whitespace on purpose: Windows CRLF line endings are normalized to plain LF, runs of three or more consecutive newlines collapse to a single blank line, and leading/trailing whitespace is trimmed. Pasting only whitespace (or nothing) returns an "input is empty" error rather than empty output.
Developer & Automation Access
Run it from the terminal
Same engine as this page, headless — via the gizza CLI:
gizza tool html-to-text "<h1>Title</h1><p>Some <b>rich</b> text.</p>"New to the CLI? Get gizza →
Open it by URL
Pre-fill and auto-run this tool with query parameters — the names match the API/CLI:
https://gizza.ai/tools/html-to-text/?html=%3Ch1%3ETitle%3C%2Fh1%3E%3Cp%3ESome%20%3Cb%3Erich%3C%2Fb%3E%20text.%3C%2Fp%3EMachine-readable descriptor: tool.json — title + parameters JSON Schema for agents.