Remove Text Formatting

A paste from Google Docs can look fine and still carry styled Unicode, non-breaking spaces, or a zero-width character buried inside one word. Remove Text Formatting clears those leftovers and gives you plain text you can safely paste somewhere else.

The result updates while you type. Your original stays in the left box, so you can change a setting without losing it.

Standard handles most web pages, documents, emails, and AI chat responses. It strips HTML, decodes HTML character codes, changes decorative Unicode letters into regular letters, removes common hidden formatting marks, and tidies extra spaces. Paragraphs and emojis stay.

• Keep layout when indentation, deliberate spacing, and every line break matter.
• HTML only removes tags and decodes codes such as & and  . Other characters are left alone.
• Deep clean also removes emojis and changes curly quotation marks to straight keyboard quotes.

Open Customize cleanup when one of those presets is close but needs a small adjustment. You can keep all line breaks, tidy oversized blank gaps, or join every line with spaces.

1. Paste text or HTML into the left box. You can also use the clipboard button.
2. Leave Standard selected, or choose another cleanup level.
3. Read the clean result on the right. The short status line tells you what changed.
4. Select Copy text. The download button saves the same result as a .txt file.

There is no Clean button to hunt for. Changes appear immediately, and Reset restores both the empty input and the Standard settings.

HTML is converted with its readable structure intact. Paragraphs, headings, list items, table rows, and <br> tags become sensible plain-text line breaks. Script and style content is discarded rather than mixed into the result.

Styled Unicode needs separate handling because it is made from different characters rather than an attached font. For example, 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐝, ⓒⓘⓡⓒⓛⓔⓓ, and full-width text can be normalized to ordinary keyboard characters. Accented letters and everyday non-Latin writing are preserved.

Common invisible troublemakers include zero-width spaces, soft hyphens, byte-order marks, and bidirectional formatting controls. They can split a search term, break a validation rule, or make two apparently identical values compare differently.

Text copied from a web page

Input

<p><strong>Quarterly update</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; 😊</p>
<p>Revenue grew &amp; the team shipped on time.</p>

Standard result

Quarterly update 😊
Revenue grew & the team shipped on time.

During testing, the bold heading became ordinary text, the double non-breaking space collapsed, and the emoji stayed. That last part matters. Removing formatting should not silently remove part of the message.

Decorative social text

Input: 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 Ａｌｐｈａ is ready.

Standard result: Project Alpha is ready.

Wrapped lines from a PDF

Choose Join lines inside Customize cleanup. Each line break becomes a space, while repeated spaces are reduced. Review paragraph boundaries first because a plain-text tool cannot reliably tell a wrapped line from an intentional new paragraph.

Plain text keeps the words, punctuation, numbers, paragraph breaks, and emojis you choose to retain. It cannot carry font family, text size, color, highlights, clickable link destinations, comments, tracked changes, or document margins.

Unicode normalization can also change compatibility symbols such as circled letters, ligatures, and mathematical styled characters. Turn off Normalize styled letters when those symbols carry meaning. For code, identifiers, or exact legal text, compare the result with the source before replacing anything.

The text in both boxes is processed locally by your browser. It is not uploaded to Textavia, attached to an account, or stored for later. Clipboard access only happens when you press the paste or copy button, and your browser may ask permission.

Avoid pasting secrets into any website you do not trust. Local processing reduces exposure, while careful handling still matters on shared computers.

Use the Whitespace Remover when spacing is the only problem. The Remove Line Breaks tool offers more control over wrapped lines, and the Plain Text Converter is useful for a straightforward HTML-to-text conversion.

Need to reshape the cleaned result afterward? Use the Case Converter, Find and Replace Text, or Duplicate Line Remover.