Remove Text Formatting
Strip HTML tags, convert entities, and normalize text to plain format. Free online tool to remove formatting and extract clean plain text.
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The formatting remover strips HTML tags, converts HTML entities back to their plain text equivalents, and normalizes whitespace to produce clean, unformatted plain text. It handles named entities (like &), numeric entities, and hex entities.
This tool is essential for extracting readable text from HTML source code, cleaning up rich text pasted from websites, and preparing content for plain text contexts like emails, CSV files, or code comments.
All processing runs in your browser — your content is never uploaded to any server.
How to Use Remove Text Formatting
- 1Paste HTML or formatted text into the input area.
- 2HTML tags are stripped and entities are converted to plain text.
- 3Whitespace is normalized for clean, readable output.
- 4Click the Copy button to copy the plain text result.