Paste HTML into a browser-based HTML to text tool and it removes the tags and returns just the readable text content. The extraction runs on your device, which is the fast way to pull clean text out of a web page, an email template or a CMS field without the markup coming along.
Copying from a rendered page often drags along hidden formatting, and copying from source gives you a mess of tags. An HTML to text tool parses the markup and keeps only the text nodes, so you get the plain words with the tags, attributes and scripts removed. That is what you need when feeding text into a plain-text field, a word counter, a translator or an analysis script.
Removing tags to display or store plain text is a formatting operation, and it is genuinely useful for cleaning up pasted content. It is worth being clear that this is different from security sanitization, where you deliberately allow some safe HTML while neutralizing scripts. For plain-text extraction the tool does exactly one job, and because it runs client-side your content is never uploaded.
No. It returns the plain text content with tags and attributes removed. For readable line breaks, block elements are separated.
No. The extraction runs entirely in your browser.
No. It extracts plain text. Security sanitization, which keeps safe HTML while removing scripts, is a different task.