Plain Text Formatter
Strip HTML tags and formatting from a page and leave readable plain text, keeping headings, list items, and paragraph breaks where they belong.
How to use
- Paste the HTML into the box.
- Choose whether link targets are kept.
- Copy the plain text.
A plain text formatter converts HTML into readable text. Headings, list items, and paragraphs keep their own line, and script and style contents are dropped, which makes the result safe to reuse as an excerpt or an email.
Output
Paste or type something above.
Questions about plain text formatter
- What happens to links?
- By default only the link text is kept. Turn the option on to keep the URL in brackets beside it.
- Are script and style contents removed?
- Yes, because their text is code rather than content and would only add noise.
- Do entities get decoded?
- Yes, so an encoded ampersand comes back as a real character.
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