Why strip HTML?
Email Marketing
Create plain-text versions of your HTML emails perfectly wrapped at 80 characters to improve deliverability and readability on legacy clients.
SEO & AI Data
Extract clean content for SEO analysis, code parsing, or feeding into LLMs. Preserve image context with our Alt Text extraction feature.
100% Privacy & Security
Built with virtual DOM parsing. Pasting an HTML email here will never trigger hidden tracking pixels or execute malicious scripts.
Common Questions
How do I convert HTML emails to text without triggering read receipts?
This tool uses a virtual DOMParser instead of injecting code directly into the browser. It extracts text without making a single network request, ensuring hidden image tracking pixels and read receipts are never activated.
How does this tool handle HTML tables?
Unlike standard text strippers that output tables as unreadable walls of text, our tool extracts table cells using smart tab-delimiters, keeping your data properly aligned in columns and rows.
Can I convert HTML to Markdown instead of plain text?
Yes. Enable the "Format as Markdown" option and the tool will automatically preserve links, bold text, italic text, and heading hashes instead of stripping them out completely.
Why are invisible characters ( ) causing code errors?
When you copy text from the web, HTML entities like decode into hidden Unicode characters that often break code compilers. Our aggressive sanitizer automatically strips zero-width spaces and normalizes NBSPs to standard spaces.