Text to HTML
Wrap plain text into clean HTML markup for reuse on the web.
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Quick Tip
Paste your plain text into the input panel.
About This Tool
Why use Text to HTML?
Turn plain text into HTML paragraphs. Each non-empty line becomes a <p> element and blank lines become <br/>, and every character is escaped on the way through — ampersands, angle brackets and quotes are converted to entities, so nothing in your text can break the markup or carry a stray tag into the page you paste it into.
That escaping is the part a hand-rolled converter usually skips, and it is what makes the output safe to paste into a CMS. Text copied out of an email, a chat or a document often contains an ampersand in a company name or an angle bracket in a quoted line; unescaped, those produce invalid markup at best. This tool handles it, so what you get back is valid HTML you can drop straight into a template.
Key Benefits
Everything is escaped
&, <, >, quotes and apostrophes become entities, so the markup stays valid whatever your text contains.
Paragraphs, not one blob
Each line becomes its own <p>, so the text keeps its structure instead of running together on the page.
Clean, minimal markup
No inline styles, no wrapper divs and no editor cruft — just paragraphs your own stylesheet can format.
How to use Text to HTML
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Paste your plain text into the input panel.
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Convert; each line becomes a paragraph and every character is escaped.
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Review the markup.
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Copy it into your CMS, template or email builder.
Best use cases
Prepare plain text for a CMS or a blog post body.
Convert copy from a document into markup for a template.
Build the body of an HTML email from a written draft.
Get valid paragraphs from text that contains ampersands or brackets.
Text to HTML FAQs
Is my text escaped?
Yes. Ampersands, angle brackets, quotes and apostrophes are all converted to HTML entities, so the output is valid markup and nothing in your text becomes an active tag.
How are line breaks handled?
Each non-empty line becomes a paragraph element, and blank lines become <br/>, so the structure of your text carries over.
Does it add any styling?
No. You get plain semantic paragraphs with no inline styles or classes, so your own stylesheet controls how they look.
What if my text is already Markdown?
Use the Markdown to HTML tool instead. This one treats everything as literal text, so Markdown syntax would come through as visible characters.
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