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Text to HTML Converter

Paste plain text and get properly-formatted HTML — paragraphs wrapped, line breaks converted, URLs and emails auto-linked, and all special characters safely escaped.

Last updated: May 27, 2026

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What is Text to HTML Converter?

When you copy text from an email, a markdown file, or a plain text document into an HTML context, the result rarely looks right. Browsers collapse whitespace, so consecutive newlines disappear; angle brackets in the source become unintended tags; URLs stay as plain text instead of clickable links.

This converter solves the common case in one pass. It HTML-escapes the input first (preventing XSS and broken markup), then wraps each blank-line-separated block in a `<p>`, converts remaining newlines to `<br />`, and auto-detects URLs and email addresses so they become clickable. The result is safe, semantic HTML you can drop into any web page.

How to Use Text to HTML Converter

1

Paste plain text into the input panel.

2

Toggle the options you want: paragraph wrapping, line-break conversion, URL/email auto-linking, HTML escaping.

3

Copy the generated HTML.

4

The live preview shows what the HTML looks like rendered.

Common Use Cases

  • Converting an email body or chat transcript into formatted HTML for a web page.
  • Posting plain-text content into a CMS that expects HTML markup.
  • Generating safe HTML from user-submitted text.
  • Quickly auto-linking URLs in a block of text.

Example Input and Output

Two paragraphs with a URL and an email get wrapped and auto-linked.

Plain text input
Visit https://example.com for more.
Contact [email protected].

Second paragraph here.
HTML output
<p>Visit <a href="https://example.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://example.com</a> for more.<br />
Contact <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.</p>

<p>Second paragraph here.</p>

Privacy

All conversion happens in your browser. No text is sent to a server.

Markdown

If your input is Markdown (with #, *, [...](...) syntax), use the Markdown to HTML converter instead — it understands the syntax rather than treating it as plain text.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is the noopener noreferrer rel added automatically?

Links opened with target="_blank" without rel="noopener" can give the new page access to the opener via window.opener — a phishing vector. Adding noopener noreferrer is a security best practice.

How does the auto-linker detect URLs?

It matches http:// and https:// followed by non-whitespace characters. Trailing punctuation (period, comma, closing paren) is stripped from the URL so it works in sentences like "see https://example.com."

What happens to existing HTML in my input?

When "Escape HTML special chars" is on (default), all <, >, & characters become entity references. Existing tags are shown literally rather than rendered. Disable escaping if you want your input to be treated as HTML already.

Does this send my text anywhere?

No. All conversion happens locally in your browser.

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