HTML to Plain Text Converter
How It Works:
The core of the tool is a JavaScript function that uses the browser’s built-in DOMParser to handle the input HTML. When you click the “Clean Text” button, the code takes the HTML string you’ve entered and creates a temporary, virtual HTML document from it. It then uses the textContent property of that document’s <body> to get all the text content. This property is powerful because it automatically ignores all HTML tags, attributes, and styling, returning only the visible, plain text. The second “Copy Text” button uses document.execCommand('copy') to copy the cleaned text to your clipboard.
Why It’s Useful:
This tool is useful for a variety of tasks where you need to quickly get plain text from a source with a lot of HTML formatting. For example, you can use it to:
- Extract the content of an online article without any of the navigation, ads, or other website elements.
- Clean up text that you’ve copied from a webpage, so you can paste it into a document or email without carrying over the original styles and links.
- Prepare raw text for analysis, search indexing, or data processing.
How to Use It:
- Paste the HTML code you want to clean into the top text box labeled “HTML Input.”
- Click the “Clean Text” button.
- The cleaned text will instantly appear in the bottom text box labeled “Cleaned Text Output.”
- Click the “Copy Text” button to copy the cleaned text to your clipboard.
Paste your HTML code below to extract only the text content.
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