Strip HTML from emails while preserving formatting as clean, readable plain text. Handles tables, lists, links, and images gracefully.
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Many email clients, accessibility tools, and spam filters rely on the plain text version of an email. Including a plain text alternative improves deliverability because spam filters flag emails that only contain HTML. It also ensures your message is readable on older email clients, smartwatches, screen readers, and devices with limited HTML rendering. Most email marketing best practices recommend sending multipart emails with both HTML and plain text versions.
When converting HTML to plain text, hyperlinks are preserved by showing the link text followed by the URL in parentheses, like: Click here (https://example.com). If the link text is the same as the URL itself, only the URL is shown to avoid redundancy. This ensures recipients can still access all the links from your email, even in the plain text version.
HTML tables are converted to aligned text-based tables using spaces and dashes. Each column is padded to a consistent width, and rows are separated by dashed lines. This preserves the tabular structure and keeps data readable even without HTML rendering. For complex nested tables, the converter flattens them into a clean, readable format.
While most modern email clients render HTML well, a plain text fallback is still important. Some corporate email systems strip HTML for security, and many users configure their clients to display plain text only. Smartwatches and notification previews typically show the plain text version. Email authentication systems like DMARC also inspect plain text content. Sending both versions (multipart/alternative) is considered an email deliverability best practice.
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