HTML -> Plain Text
Strip tags from HTML and keep readable plain text. Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is sent to Formsig.
About this tool
Paste HTML and strip tags to plain text. Useful when you need clean copy from emails, CMS exports, or scraped snippets without editing markup by hand.
Features
- Removes HTML tags while keeping text content
- Optional collapse of excess whitespace
- Copy plain text in one click
- Browser-only. Markup never uploads
Common use cases
- Cleaning HTML email into plain text
- Extracting copy from CMS HTML exports
- Preparing text for a word counter or diff
- Removing tags before pasting into forms
How it works
The browser parses your HTML in a temporary element and reads textContent. Optional whitespace cleanup collapses runs of spaces and blank lines.
Privacy: this utility runs in your browser. Formsig serves the page but does not need your input to compute results.
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FAQ
Are scripts executed?
No. Markup is parsed as HTML in an isolated element for text extraction only. Do not paste untrusted HTML into sites that execute it.
Will images become text?
Image tags are removed. Alt text may appear if present as text nodes depending on structure.