How to Use Convert Text ↔ HTML - Free Online Tool
Learn how to effectively use the Text ↔ HTML Converter to transform between plain text and HTML formats with comprehensive formatting options
What is Text ↔ HTML Converter?
The Text ↔ HTML Converter is a powerful tool that converts plain text to HTML and HTML back to plain text. This tool is essential for web developers, content creators, and anyone who needs to format text for web display or extract clean text from HTML documents. It preserves formatting, handles special characters, and provides customizable options for encoding and formatting.
Text to HTML Conversion
When converting text to HTML, the tool automatically:
- Line Breaks: Converts line breaks to
<br>tags or<p>paragraphs - Special Characters: Encodes special characters like <, >, & to their HTML entities
- Spaces: Converts multiple spaces to non-breaking spaces or preserves whitespace
- Formatting: Applies bold, italic, underline formatting if detected
- Links: Converts URLs to clickable HTML links
You can customize the output format, choose encoding options, and decide how to handle different text elements.
HTML to Text Conversion
When converting HTML to text, the tool:
- Removes Tags: Strips all HTML tags while preserving content
- Decodes Entities: Converts HTML entities (like , ©) back to characters
- Preserves Structure: Maintains line breaks and paragraph structure
- Handles Attributes: Extracts text from tag attributes when relevant
- Cleans Output: Removes extra whitespace and normalizes formatting
This is perfect for extracting clean text from HTML documents, emails, or web pages.
How to Use
- Enter your text or HTML in the input area
- Select conversion direction:
- Text to HTML: Click "Convert to HTML" button
- HTML to Text: Click "Convert to Text" button
- Configure formatting options:
- Encoding: Choose character encoding (UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, etc.)
- Line Breaks: Select how to handle line breaks (BR tags, P tags, or preserve)
- Preserve Whitespace: Keep multiple spaces or normalize
- Formatting Tags: Apply bold, italic, or other formatting
- Link Conversion: Automatically convert URLs to links
- View the converted result in the output area
- Copy or download the converted content
Use Cases
- Format plain text for web display with proper HTML tags
- Extract clean text from HTML emails or web pages
- Convert user-generated content to HTML format
- Clean HTML documents by extracting plain text
- Prepare text for HTML email templates
- Convert formatted documents to HTML code
- Extract readable text from HTML source code