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Remove Text Formatting

This tool allows you to quickly remove unnecessary text formatting from your content. Strip HTML tags, markdown, special characters, and styling to get clean, plain text. Perfect for cleaning up content copied from websites, Word documents, or PDFs.

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Formatting Options

Type or paste your content here

Character Count: 0 | Word Count: 0 | Line Count: 0

Plain Text Output

Character Count: 0 | Word Count: 0 | Line Count: 0

Strip All Formatting

Removes HTML tags, markdown, bold, italics, colors, fonts, and all other formatting to give you clean plain text.

Smart Processing

Intelligently removes zero-width characters, non-breaking spaces, and other invisible formatting artifacts.

Customizable Options

Choose to remove extra spaces, preserve line breaks, or strip special characters based on your needs.

How to Remove Text Formatting

Quick Steps:

  1. 1 Paste your formatted text in the left area
  2. 2 Adjust formatting options as needed
  3. 3 See the plain text instantly on the right side
  4. 4 Copy or download the clean plain text

What Gets Removed:

  • HTML tags: <div>, <p>, <span>, etc.
  • Markdown formatting: **bold**, *italic*, ~~strikethrough~~
  • Special characters: Zero-width spaces, non-breaking spaces
  • Extra whitespace: Multiple spaces, tabs, excessive line breaks
  • Styling: Colors, fonts, sizes, and other visual formatting
  • Invisible elements: Hidden characters and formatting markers

Common Use Cases

Website Copy

Clean up text copied from websites that includes HTML tags and styling

Word Documents

Remove formatting from Word docs to get clean, portable plain text

Email Content

Strip formatting from emails for clean text-only messages

Chat Messages

Remove markdown and formatting from chat app messages

Why Remove Text Formatting?

Clean Plain Text: Get rid of all visual formatting to work with pure text content. Perfect for data processing, text analysis, or when you need content without any styling.

Copy Without Formatting: When you copy text from websites or documents, it often brings unwanted HTML tags, colors, fonts, and other formatting. This tool strips all of that instantly.

Universal Compatibility: Plain text works everywhere — in code editors, databases, text files, and any application regardless of platform or formatting support.

Better for Processing: If you're using text for analysis, automation, or importing into other systems, plain text is much easier to work with than formatted content.

Example

Before With Formatting
<div class="text"> <p><strong>Hello</strong> <em>World</em></p> </div>
After Plain Text
Hello World