Remove Text Formatting
Strip HTML tags, smart quotes, extra whitespace, and hidden characters. Get clean, plain text ready to paste anywhere.
Paste formatted text and click Remove Formatting
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Copying text from websites, documents, or emails often brings along unwanted formatting — HTML tags, smart quotes, non-breaking spaces, zero-width characters, and inconsistent line breaks. This hidden formatting can cause issues when pasting into other applications, content management systems, or code editors. Our Remove Text Formatting tool strips all formatting and hidden characters, giving you clean, plain text. It handles HTML tags, HTML entities, smart typography (curly quotes, em dashes, ellipses), invisible Unicode characters, and normalizes whitespace and line breaks. The result is pristine plain text that works consistently across all platforms and applications.
- Cleaning text copied from websites before pasting into CMS
- Removing HTML tags from copied content
- Normalizing text for code or data processing
- Fixing formatting issues when pasting between applications
- Cleaning email content for plain text replies
- Preparing text for import into databases or spreadsheets
- Paste the full text including any HTML or formatting you want removed
- Review the output to ensure no important content was lost
- The tool preserves paragraph structure with proper line breaks
- Smart quotes and typography are converted to their plain equivalents
- Multiple consecutive spaces are collapsed to single spaces
- Use this before pasting into code editors or CMS platforms
What types of formatting does it remove?
It removes HTML tags, HTML entities, smart quotes, em/en dashes, ellipses, non-breaking spaces, zero-width characters, and normalizes all whitespace and line breaks.
Will it remove my paragraph breaks?
No, the tool preserves paragraph structure. It normalizes excessive line breaks (3+ consecutive) down to double line breaks, maintaining your paragraph separation.
Can I use it for HTML content?
Yes, the tool strips all HTML tags and converts common HTML entities (&, <, >, , etc.) to their plain text equivalents.