html to text

This block is part of the value group and was last modified in core v15.0.2.

html to text value v15.0.2

Turns HTML into one line of plain text: tags removed, every HTML entity decoded and whitespace collapsed. Set max length to cut the text on a word boundary.

In pins 2

html value required
The HTML to convert.
max length number
The longest the text may be, in characters. It is cut on a word boundary. Leave empty or 0 for no limit.

Out pins 2

value value
truncated condition
True when the text was cut to max length. Nothing is appended to it; add an ellipsis yourself if you want one.

Outputs the plain text of the html input as ONE line: script, style, head and title elements are dropped with their contents, comments removed, block boundaries/breaks/list items/table cells become a space, every other tag is removed without a space (ac -> "ac"), then ALL HTML entities are decoded (named and numeric;   becomes a space) and runs of whitespace collapse to one space, trimmed. Entities are decoded after the tags are gone, so escaped markup stays visible ("" -> ""). max_length > 0 caps the result at that many characters (not bytes), ending on a word boundary: a word the cap falls inside is dropped, a single word longer than the cap is cut hard. No ellipsis is appended; truncated is true when anything was cut. Unwired html outputs "". Example: "Hello worldA & B" -> "Hello world A & B".

strip html

strip tags

html to plain text

remove html

Version history

Introduced in v15.0.2.

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