HTML to Text Converter (Escape HTML & Remove Tags)

Convert HTML code into readable text using multiple methods. This tool allows you to escape HTML characters for safe display or remove HTML tags to extract clean plain text. You can paste JavaScript, CSS, HTML, or PHP code to safely escape and display embedded code as text without rendering it in the browser.

When converting HTML to text, we usually convert or escape special characters and tags into HTML entities. This way, the code will be displayed as plain text instead of being treated as HTML

This conversion replaces special characters with HTML entities to display code as plain text. For example, < becomes &lt;, > becomes &gt;, and & becomes &amp;.

Escape HTML vs Remove HTML Tags

  • Escape HTML - Keeps the HTML structure visible as text
  • Remove HTML Tags - Extracts only readable content

Contents

  1. HTML Escape (Encode HTML Characters)
  2. Remove All HTML Tags
  3. Unescape HTML (Reverse Function)

HTML Escape (Encode HTML Characters)

Use this option to convert HTML special characters into safe text entities. Escaped HTML is ideal for displaying code snippets, preventing XSS issues, and showing HTML examples without rendering them in the browser.

Example use cases:

  • Display HTML code in tutorials
  • Prevent HTML injection
  • Encode user input safely
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Select Characters to Escape (Optional)

Choose which special characters you want to convert into HTML entities. This option is useful when you only need to escape specific characters instead of the entire HTML code.

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JavaScript HTML Escape function HTML Escape

How to Use Escaped HTML Code

Escaped HTML code is mainly used to display code examples safely on web pages without letting the browser render or execute them. This is useful for tutorials, documentation, blog posts, and code previews.

When HTML is escaped, special characters like <, >, and & are shown as text, so visitors can see the actual code.

Example: Display Escaped HTML Using <pre><code>

HTML
<pre><code>
&lt;div class="card"&gt;
  &lt;h2&gt;Hello World&lt;/h2&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;This is escaped HTML code&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
</code></pre>

Remove HTML Tags (Full Text Conversion)

This option removes all HTML tags and keeps only the readable content. It is useful when you want to extract plain text from HTML documents, emails, or copied web content.

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Options

?Keeps line breaks by converting <br>, <p>, and <div> tags into new lines in the output.
?Cleans extra spaces and tabs while preserving meaningful line breaks for readable text.
?Removes <script> and <style> tags and their contents to avoid unwanted code in the output.
?Removes HTML comments (<!-- comment -->) from the input before converting to plain text.
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JavaScript Remove HTML Tags function Remove HTML Tags

Unescape HTML (Reverse Function)

Use this option to convert escaped HTML entities back into their original characters. The Unescape HTML tool is helpful when working with encoded content, copied source code, or text that has been escaped for safe display and needs to be restored to normal, readable HTML or plain text.

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JavaScript HTML unEscape function HTML unEscape