Strip all HTML tags from markup and extract clean, readable plain text. Preserves paragraph structure with line breaks. Useful for email plain-text fallbacks, data extraction, and SEO analysis.
This converter uses the browser's native DOMParser API to parse the HTML string into a DOM tree, then extracts the innerText or textContent property of the body element. This is fundamentally more accurate than using a regular expression to remove tags — regex cannot handle nested tags, CDATA, or HTML entities reliably. The DOMParser approach handles all valid (and most invalid) HTML correctly because it uses the same parsing engine as the browser itself.
text/plain MIME part) for email clients that block HTML and for spam filter scoring. This converter produces the plain-text fallback from your HTML email template.innerText returns the visible text of an element as it appears on screen — it respects CSS display:none and visibility:hidden and preserves layout-related whitespace. textContent returns the raw text content of all nodes including hidden elements and is generally faster. For HTML to plain text conversion where you want what a user sees, innerText is more accurate. For raw text extraction ignoring CSS, textContent is preferred.
Use PHP's built-in strip_tags($html) function, which removes all HTML and PHP tags from a string. Pass a second argument to allow specific tags: strip_tags($html, '<p><br>'). For more control, use a DOM parser: $dom = new DOMDocument(); @$dom->loadHTML($html); echo $dom->textContent;. Note that strip_tags() does not decode HTML entities — follow it with html_entity_decode() to convert &, , etc.
The safest approach uses DOMParser: const doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(html, 'text/html'); const text = doc.body.innerText;. An alternative is to create a temporary element: const el = document.createElement('div'); el.innerHTML = html; const text = el.innerText;. Avoid regex for tag stripping — a simple regex like html.replace(/<[^>]+>/g, '') fails on malformed HTML and can be bypassed with crafted input.
Yes — this tool uses innerText/textContent which reads the text as the browser has decoded it, so HTML entities are decoded to their character equivalents: & becomes &, becomes a space, < becomes <. This produces natural, readable text rather than entity-littered output.