Why pasted text looks wrong
Rich text carries hidden styling instructions. Paste a paragraph from a website into your document or CMS and it can bring alien fonts, background colors and giant line spacing with it. Converting to plain text removes all of that while keeping the words and (optionally) the line breaks, so your own formatting takes over cleanly.
Two ways to clean text
Option A is for normal copying: paste the formatted text into the box and click Remove Formatting — bold, italics, fonts and colors disappear. Option B is for code: paste raw HTML and the tool strips every tag, decodes entities like & and , and turns paragraphs and line breaks into real line breaks.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this remove links too?
Yes — plain text has no links, so URLs survive only if the visible text itself was the address. That is the point of plain text: words only.
What happens to bullet lists?
Bullets pasted from rich text usually arrive as • characters and line breaks, which are kept. HTML lists become one item per line.
Is my text sent to a server?
Never — cleaning happens locally in your browser.
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