Strip HTML to Plain Text — Extract Clean, Readable Content
HTML-to-TXT strips every tag, attribute, script block, and style declaration, leaving only the human-readable text content. Essential for feeding web content into AI/NLP pipelines, building search indexes, migrating site content to a new CMS, and debugging what a screen reader actually sees when it processes a page.
How to Convert HTML to TXT
Click "Convert Now" to open the converter with HTML → TXT pre-selected.
Drag & drop your HTML file or click Browse to select it.
Conversion happens entirely in your browser — nothing uploaded.
Your converted TXT file downloads automatically.
Strip All HTML Markup: Extract Clean Text from Web Pages
Web pages mix presentation and content — the HTML markup that makes pages look good in a browser is noise when you need the actual text. Converting HTML to TXT strips <div>, <span>, <script>, <style>, and every other tag, leaving only the words a human would read. This is essential for NLP preprocessing, where models need clean text without tag clutter. Site migration tools use it to extract content before re-publishing in a new CMS. Accessibility auditors convert to TXT to see exactly what a screen reader processes. Email marketers create the plain-text alternative version of HTML newsletters this way. Content scrapers cleaning HTML output before writing to a database rely on TXT extraction to normalize their data. The output is a simple UTF-8 text file containing every visible word from the original HTML, in document order, with whitespace normalized.
Why Strip HTML to TXT?
- 🤖 AI/NLP pipelines — feed web page HTML to text analysis models without tag noise cluttering the input
- 🗂️ Content migration — extract article text from archived HTML pages for re-publishing in WordPress or Ghost
- 📧 Email plain-text — create the plain-text version of HTML email templates for clients like Outlook
- ♿ Accessibility auditing — debug what screen readers (NVDA, VoiceOver) process by checking stripped text output
- 🗄️ Database ingestion — clean HTML scraped data before ingesting into PostgreSQL or Elasticsearch full-text indexes
HTML vs TXT — Format Comparison
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and TXT (Plain Text (.txt)) use different compression and storage methods. The table below shows the key technical differences. HTML is the language of the web — rendered by browsers, not document viewers. TXT is the smallest document format — zero formatting, maximum compatibility.
Features
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In-browser processing — no server queue, no waiting.
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Full Strip
Scripts, styles, and all tags removed — clean UTF-8 output.
Mobile-Friendly
Works on any device — phone, tablet, desktop.
No Install
Nothing to download. Works in any modern browser.
Key Questions About HTML to TXT, Answered
Direct answers structured for AI extraction, voice search, and featured snippets.
Does the converter preserve line breaks and paragraph spacing?
Block-level tags like <p>, <div>, and <h1>–<h6> each produce a line break in the output, so the text stays readable as separate paragraphs. Inline tags like <span> or <a> don't add any extra whitespace — they just contribute their text in place.
- Block elements (p, div, headings): each starts on a new line
- Inline elements (span, a, strong): contribute text without extra line breaks
- Result: readable paragraph structure, not one giant run-on line
Are <script> and <style> blocks removed from the output?
Yes. All <script> and <style> content is completely removed — not just the tags, but the JavaScript code and CSS rules inside them too. Only human-readable text remains in the TXT output.
- JavaScript code: stripped entirely, including inline event handlers
- CSS rules: stripped entirely, including <style> blocks and style attributes
- Output: clean human-readable text with no code noise
What happens to HTML entities like &nbsp; or &amp;?
HTML entities are decoded to their plain text equivalents — &amp; becomes &, &nbsp; becomes a regular space, and &lt; becomes <. The output is proper readable text, not encoded HTML markup.
- &amp; → &
- &nbsp; → a space character
- &lt; / &gt; → < / >
- Accented and Unicode entities: decoded to their actual characters
Will tables and full pages with nav/footer convert to readable text?
Table cell contents are extracted in reading order — left-to-right, top-to-bottom. The visual grid structure is lost, but all the text content is preserved. The converter processes all visible text in the document, including navigation menus and footers, so if you only want the main article, trim the HTML down to that section before converting.
- Tables: cell text extracted in reading order, grid layout not preserved
- Full pages: nav, footer, and sidebar text are included by default
- Article-only output: remove unwanted sections from the HTML first
- AI training data: a common preprocessing step — produces clean, markup-free text
Frequently Asked Questions
<span> produce no extra whitespace. Block-level tags like <p>, <div>, <h1> each produce a line break in the output so the text remains readable.<script> and <style> content is completely removed, not just the tags. JavaScript code and CSS rules are stripped entirely — only human-readable text remains in the output.& becomes &, becomes a space, < becomes <. The output is proper readable text, not encoded HTML.