Remove Text Formatting
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Remove Text Formatting
This text cleaner clears formatting from your text in a single step, stripping styling, fonts, HTML tags, emojis, and extra whitespace. When you copy content from websites, Word documents, or emails, hidden formatting often comes along for the ride. Removing it leaves you with clean, plain text that you can paste into any editor or application without unexpected style conflicts.
How to Clear Formatting From Text
- Paste your text into the input box on the left.
- Choose what to remove in the settings, such as HTML, line breaks, emojis, and extra spaces.
- Review the clean plain text in the output box on the right.
- Copy the cleaned text to your clipboard.
What is a text cleaner?
A text cleaner is a tool that strips unwanted formatting from text and returns plain, unformatted text. This text cleaner removes styles, fonts, HTML tags, emojis, line breaks, tabs, and extra spaces, so pasted content matches the formatting of wherever you place it. It is useful when text copied from web pages, documents, or emails carries hidden formatting you do not want.
How do I clear formatting from text?
The Remove Text Formatting tool allows you to strip unwanted styles, fonts, and layouts from your text. Whether you are dealing with copied content from the web, emails, or documents, this tool ensures your text is clean and uniform. Paste your text into the tool and all unnecessary formatting is removed automatically, leaving you with plain, unformatted text ready for your needs. If you only need to target specific characters like em dashes, the Em Dash Remover handles that precisely.
How can I remove emojis from text?
Emojis can be fun and expressive, but sometimes they can be distracting or inappropriate for your text. The Remove Text Formatting tool allows you to easily remove emojis from your text. Simply paste your text into the tool, and all emojis will be removed, leaving you with clean, emoji-free text.
How can I remove HTML from text?
HTML tags can clutter your text and make it difficult to read or work with. The Remove Text Formatting tool allows you to easily remove HTML tags from your text. Simply paste your text into the tool, and all HTML tags will be removed, leaving you with clean, unformatted text. If the HTML also introduced unwanted line breaks, you can follow up with the Remove Line Breaks tool to join everything into clean paragraphs. To replace underscores from file names or code with spaces, use the Remove Underscores tool.
How can I remove extra spaces from text?
Extra spaces can make your text look messy and unprofessional. The Remove Text Formatting tool allows you to easily remove extra spaces from your text. Simply paste your text into the tool, and all extra spaces will be removed, leaving you with clean, well-formatted text. For more granular control over tabs and invisible characters, the Whitespace Remover offers additional options.
Is my text private when I clear formatting?
Yes. All cleaning happens in your browser, so your text is never uploaded to a server. Nothing you paste leaves your device, which makes the tool suitable for cleaning private or sensitive content.
Last reviewed: June 2026