Input
<p>Formatted <strong>text</strong> with spaces.</p>
Clean & normalize
Remove Formatting from Text
Create portable plain text for forms, databases, CMS fields, code comments, and email. The default workflow removes HTML markup and hidden characters, decodes entities, normalizes special spaces, and tidies repeated whitespace while preserving readable words and paragraphs.
Focused workspace
Remove Text Formatting
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Before and after
Remove Text Formatting Example
Output
Formatted text with spaces.
Three steps
How to use this tool
- Paste formatted text or markup into the input box.
- Adjust which markup, hidden-character, and whitespace rules are used.
- Convert it and copy the clean plain-text result.
Useful workflows
Common use cases
- Clear copied formatting before pasting into another system.
- Normalize client briefs, product copy, and article drafts.
- Prepare text for databases, code, and plain-text documents.
How it works
Fast text processing without an upload
The selected operations are applied in order by JavaScript running on this page. The input is not sent to the Go server and is not written to SQLite. The server provides the page, SEO content, and blog system; the browser performs the text transformation.
Questions
Remove Text Formatting FAQ
Is this the same as Ctrl+Shift+V?
Paste-as-plain-text removes visual styling, while this tool can also remove HTML, entities, hidden Unicode, and inconsistent whitespace.
Will it remove paragraphs?
No. The default reduces repeated blank lines but keeps normal paragraph breaks.
Can I keep HTML and only remove classes?
Use the dedicated Strip HTML Tags page for selective attribute cleaning.