# HTML to Plain Text

> Strip HTML tags and extract readable text with the paragraph breaks intact.

HTML to Plain Text parses your markup with the browser's own HTML parser — so real-world, imperfect markup is handled the way a browser handles it — and produces clean structured output. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

**URL:** https://convertto.tech/t/html-to-text
**Category:** Text Tools (https://convertto.tech/c/text-tools)
**Privacy:** Runs entirely in the browser; no upload
**Cost:** Free, no sign-up
**Last updated:** 2026-08-01

## Key facts

- **Privacy:** Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded
- **Cost:** Free, unlimited, no sign-up

## How to use

1. Enter or paste your html.
2. Select your or upload an .html file — the file stays on your device and is never uploaded.
3. Press Run, then download the result when it is ready.

## FAQ

### Is my HTML uploaded?

No. It is parsed and converted by JavaScript in this tab.

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