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HTML copied from a webpage or exported from a rich-text editor carries markup that most destinations don't want - a plain-text email, a CSV field, a plain textarea. This strips every tag and decodes entities back to normal characters (& becomes &), with an option to convert block-level boundaries into real line breaks first, so the result reads as a document instead of one run-on line.
When you'd use this
Converting rich-text-editor output or a copied webpage snippet into clean plain text before pasting it somewhere that shouldn't render HTML, or that would otherwise show raw tags as literal text.
Common errors
With "keep line breaks" off, the whole thing collapses onto effectively one line - that's not a bug, block-level tags like `<p>` and `<div>` don't produce a line break on their own once the tags themselves are removed, only the option's explicit conversion step adds one.
Frequently asked questions
Does this handle malformed or incomplete HTML?
Yes, reasonably well - parsing goes through the browser's own HTML parser (the same one that renders webpages), which is built to recover from malformed markup rather than fail outright, unlike a hand-written regex that only handles well-formed tags.
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