HTML to Text Converter

Converting HTML to plain text is useful whenever you need the readable content without the markup. Common scenarios include extracting article text from scraped web pages, cleaning up HTML email content for plain text versions, preparing content for systems that only accept plain text, removing formatting before importing into a database, and getting word counts on the actual content without counting HTML tags.

The tool removes all HTML tags, decodes HTML entities (like & back to &), and optionally preserves the visual structure by converting block-level elements into line breaks. The result is clean, readable text you can paste anywhere.

HTML uses two types of elements: block elements (like p, div, h1, li, br) that create visual line breaks, and inline elements (like span, strong, em, a) that flow within the text. When 'preserve line breaks' is enabled, the tool inserts a newline wherever a block element ends, maintaining the paragraph structure of the original HTML.

Without line break preservation, all text is collapsed into a single continuous string with spaces between elements. This is useful when you need a compact single-line version, but for readability, preserved line breaks usually give a better result. Consecutive blank lines from nested block elements are collapsed to a single blank line to keep the output tidy.