About this conversion
Convert HTML to TXT to strip every tag and get just the text. Ideal when you need plain content for search indexing, word counts, email previews, or accessibility tools — anywhere HTML markup would be noise.
When this conversion is useful
- Generating a plain-text email version alongside an HTML email
- Producing search-engine-readable snippets from an HTML page
- Counting actual words in a webpage without inflating the count with markup
- Feeding webpage content into a script or tool that doesn't parse HTML
Quality and tradeoffs
Tags are removed, but text content order follows the source's DOM structure. Block elements (paragraphs, headings, list items) are separated by line breaks; inline elements flow inline. JavaScript-rendered content isn't captured — only the static HTML source.
Frequently asked questions
Will hyperlinks be preserved?
Link text is preserved as-is. The URLs are dropped — for plain text, link destinations aren't representable inline.
What about images and media?
Images are removed. Their `alt` text isn't currently substituted into the output, since alt text is often missing or low-quality.
Does the order match how the page reads visually?
It matches the DOM (source) order, which usually matches reading order. Pages relying on CSS for layout (e.g., reordered grids) may produce surprising sequences.