The vocabulary of the HTML to Text API

The 8 fields and concepts you'll meet in the response — defined in plain English, each with a real example value.

8 terms
General8

HTML

HyperText Markup Language - the standard language for creating web pages and applications.

DOM

Document Object Model - the programming interface for HTML documents representing structure as a tree.

HTML Entity

A code like & that represents special characters in HTML.

Block Element

HTML element that starts on a new line and takes full width (div, p, h1).

Inline Element

HTML element that flows with text without breaking lines (span, a, strong).

Whitespace Normalization

Converting multiple spaces and newlines into single spaces for clean output.

Boilerplate

Non-content elements like navigation, headers, footers, and ads.

Plain Text

Text without any formatting markup, structure, or styling.

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